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Saturday, March 01, 2014

Looney Liberal Night

I love my really liberal friends but last night drove me absolutely bonkers. Hanging out in downtown Minneapolis for a birthday party for one of them, I was regaled with mouthfoaming about how all corporations are evil puppet masters who have hijacked Barack Obama's mind and soul, manipulating him into doing their nefarious bidding. Apparently, the Federal Reserve is behind it all.

Great.

After I took far more than I should, I posited that they don't sound any different than those moonbats on the far right and their evil government conspiracy theories. That made them very upset, offering several "Wow. Just wows" at my "naivete" at "how the world really works." One woman kept asking me over and over again if I knew just what the Federal Reserve really was. I replied that I did. When she asked for an explanation and I gave her one, she rolled her eyes and accused me of being "blind." Her boyfriend then described to me his theory that Barack Obama was taken aside after about a month in office and given his orders.

"Just look at the difference in his face after a few weeks in office. He went from young looking to ashen. Yeah, they told how it was."

"Who is they?" I asked.

"Ah, c'mon Mark, you know!!"

I still don't.

I tried to explain to them that I had been through all this in the 1990s, listening regularly to Art Bell and Coast to Coast. I still listen to it today but realize with the wisdom of my years that most of this stuff is just fictional garbage. More frustrating is the sad fact that people on the Right view all liberals as being this way. We are most decidedly not.

The whole night really kinda sucked because I was, once again, given a shining example of how when the left goes too far, they end up sounding like right wingers. Chem trails, the Bilderbergers, Monsanto, and a whole host of other moustache twirlers are all comin' to gin us!

6 comments:

Juris Imprudent said...

with mouthfoaming about how all corporations are evil puppet masters

Centerpoint/RMR ring any bells?

Mark Ward said...

You asked me for an example of a corporation forcing me to do something. I gave it to you. Then you acted like a baby and started ranting about the government...which is pretty much how it always goes. You set the rules, juris, and I simply followed the meaning of your words as strictly as I could lest I be accused (again) of reading comprehension problems

I actually love Centerpoint and think they are a great company.

Juris Imprudent said...

I gave it to you.

Such a wretched "example" of force that even your most ardent supporters begged you to retract. You do recall how seldom blk and I agreed?

You really just don't understand the concept of force.

GuardDuck said...

u asked me for an example of a corporation forcing me to do something.

the meaning of your words as strictly as I could lest I be accused (again) of reading comprehension problems

Apparently you had reading of the dictionary comprehension problems....

Larry said...

Sigh. As I recall, Centerpoint was required to do that inspection as a result of a government law. Who was forcing who to do what again?

Larry said...

And if you didn't let Centerpoint in, who was going to enforce the law? Well, armed officers of the law.

We know there are people further to the left than you, but not all that many, really. There are a whole hell of a lot more people on the other sides (I hate that useless left/right dichotomy), though. From different things you've said in comments here and elsewhere, I think you're a lot further left than your public persona presentation would at first suggest. And no, I don't intend to waste any time trying to find them again. It's not worth the effort, as you yourself have recently proclaimed. And I know that to be true from distasteful experience.