Neanderpundit

Nobody at the reins of power will stop doing what they’re doing unless they are a little frightened of what we’ll do.

Now: What do we do that causes them to fear us without all ending up at Gitmo? Tea parties don’t seem to work. What is the breakover point?

And today I had about a half pound of leftover deer. So I fried it up for breakfast, and made a nice ham&cheese omelette for the Ogwife. The Oglet is yet to make her appearance.

I’m still munching on crunchy fried pieces of deer, the wife’s omelette is three eggs, a half pound of ham, and a half pound of cheese, so she won’t finish it this morning. And I have no intention of dragging my ass out of the sweats I’m wearing until at least noon. Happy New Years, folks. Hope it brings us all good things. Since we can’t wish for peace, or political decency, at least we can hope for personal improvements in our lives.

It’s Barack Hussein Obama, you dumbass.

Look: The whole of Atlas Shrugged was only incidentally about how statism is bad and how capitalism isn’t. Those things are true, but the larger picture is about a group of egotistical pains in the ass shutting down as much of the planet as possible to remold it in their image. And that’s just what you have now, and don’t you forget it.

No matter how unlike Galt is Obama, No matter how unlike Dabney Taggart is Pelosi, no matter how unlike Reardon is Rahm, what they are doing is the fucking same. They have the courage of their convictions that what they are doing is the right thing (not “right” in a meaningful sense, just “Right” in their twisted view) and they have grabbed the reins of power, and are using them to enforce their agenda. Atlas is shrugging, and the load is dropping directly on you and I. And it will remain there until WE shrug.

Look: Hank Reardon is an utter fiction, and always will be. The closest thing you had to Hank was Henry Ford, and he’s been gone a long time. Nothing like that exists anymore. The actual work of inventing and producing things has been in the hands of the research laboratory and in the garages of motivated amateurs since Edison built the Menlo Park lab over a hundred years ago. That whole annoying book is really about using whatever tools are at hand (And boy, do I mean TOOLS) to force the population to toe the line and do the right thing. It’s as stupid to believe in Dabs and Hank and John as it is to believe in Nancy and Brak and Rahm. There is no group of elites that know what is best for us, and to give them the levers of power to make it happen is a clusterfuck of the first water.

Atlas Shrugged. You’re living it. Hope you like it.