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We Decided Not to See Bernie
Bernie Sanders spoke in our hometown of Aiken, SC, Friday at 1 p.m. His campaign headquarters is close to where we live, so last night, neutral observer and I talked about how we ought to go. I was going to wear my KGB t-shirt and she was going to wear my Moscow University tee. We laughed hysterically at the thought!
However, after sobering up sleeping on it, we decided not to go. I told one of my old friends about the idea, and he pointed out someone might take my picture. Imagine a newspaper photograph of Stad, a die-hard conservative at a Bernie Sanders rally wearing a KGB tee! This is a not the public image I want to project.
Ironically, Sanders’ Aiken campaign office is located next to a gun store. I wonder how security is going to handle that…
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Y’all could have disguised yourselves — beard, fake scar, red wig, etc.
Just go! Inhale the aromas of the proletariat! Let them eat lentils! Health care for everyone! Give us your tired, your destitute, your desperate! The rich will be rounded up to feed them. Extra bedrooms? Two migrants for you.
And the chants… Bernie, Bernie, take from them and give to me! More free stuff! More free stuff! Corporations hurt our nation! Health care, health care. Make it free. Make it fair!
You could have gone wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Bet you would have fit right in and they would have made you feel right at home.
That just screams for exploitation! :-)
How about those hospital or painters masks? Add some pink or purple temp color to your hair and gel it up – no one will know its you…..
My nephew and his 4 children, 4 or more grandchildren live in Aiken, off Lundee. He is a hunter so has guns, but for the life of me, can’t seem to get him to discuss politics. I adore him but haven’t seen him in 20 years. I stayed 2 weeks with him in 1998-99. Has a beautiful piece of property.
You will need to know this for a Bernie rally:
This Land Is Your LandWoody GuthrieThis land is your land, this land is my land
From the California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
And saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me , a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling
In the wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me
That’s not too far from where we live.
We joked about what would happen if a guy walked out with his new AR-15 right when Bernie started speaking . . .
I’m just curious to know what these events smell like…
You should get some trolling attire:
Update:
neutral observer has decided to go!
Film at 11 . . .
I imagine it’s at 1pm because his target audience works in the evening at Starbucks and the like.
What?? They work?
They won’t take kindly to the parody (from memory).
This land is my land, this land ain’t your land.
I’ve got a shotgun, and you don’t have one.
So you’d better get off
Before I blow your head off
This land is private property.
Until Bernie comes to power and starts handing out all the free stuff. Having to work at a menial job to pay for things that should be free (like housing and food) is why they support Bernie. They should be free to contemplate their gender studies degree without the distraction of having to produce something someone else is willing to pay for.
Don’t you want at least to pick up some ammunition and fondle it lovingly as you pass by?
Watch for my nephew in case he shows, tall good looking slender guy about 58-59 with a mustache. Name is John. May be with one of his 3 daughters, or his doctor son. Nah, don’t think so. However, I want to see him and his kids before the good Lord calls me, so if I make it to SC we can have a meet up.
Sounds like something my wife is looking for. She won’t get much trading me in though . . .
Update:
Well, neutral observer came home with this report. There were two speakers stalling for time waiting for Bernie to show. The first woman was a white lady with blue hair (dyed) who invoked Eugene Debbs, the second was a black lady who just talked. The crowd was mostly young people, many with nose rings (easier to lead them around with). Then Bernie showed.
neutral observer: Bernie spoke for about fifteen minutes. Everything he said was a lie.
Stad: You should have channeled your inner Joe Wilson.
neutral observer: I decided to remain silent.
Needless to say, she didn’t feel the Bern. However, she did feel the burn – the burn from the scrapes on her hands and knees after she tripped on her way back to the car. When she got home, she patched herself up, and I took her to the urgent care center to get her knee x-rayed to make sure it wasn’t broken (it wasn’t). When we got home, I administered some painkiller (champagne) and promised steaks and baked potatoes for tomorrow night.
Bernie’s cranking socialism to 11.
Most won’t know what the KGB is anyway. If anyone asks, say it stands for Karma Goat Bernie. “Dude, in the wheel of life, the goat is advanced. It’s like… up there, ya know? Like, in China, this is the year of the goat.”
Ouch. Hope she’s ok.
She is (the champagne helped!). I’m worried, though. The last opposition candidate she went to see was Obama in 2008, and the SOB won. Let’s hope she doesn’t go 2-0 . . .
The parody version we sang in elementary school went something like this:
This land is my land, it isn’t your land,
If you don’t get off, I’ll blow your head off,
With a bunch of bee bees, you’ll look like Swiss Cheese,
This land was made for me not you!
If the t-shirt has Cyrilic characters everbody would think you were part of Putin’s help for Bernie.
I remember after the Berlin Wall fell that I seem to remember purchasing a t-shirt from the back of National Review that had a hammer and sickle and read something like “Soviet Union 1922–1991, Tragical Misery Tour”. I think the back of the t-shirt had a list of cities that the Soviets had invaded with perhaps death statistics, maybe.
I think I was too embarrassed to wear it as I was afraid people would see the hammer and sickle and not get the joke.
How did they leave out Bernie’s man-crush, Fidel??
I always liked this song; it seems innocuous to me. When I heard it was a big commie anthem, I couldn’t figure it out. I still can’t.
It IS our country, each one of us. We, individual American CITIZENS, have a stake in the place. We formed a government, both to establish a Law we all agree to abide by, so we can make sure we all deal fairly with each other, and to take care of the administrative details. But this is a place where we can carve out an existence without having to be beholding to a King or Politburo or Lord or Reverend. Each individual person has exactly as much value and rights before the Law.
I always thought this song was an ode to the beauty and wonder of this magnificent place we live – and control with strict boundary enforcement – that we all acknowledge a duty to take care of while we pursue our individual aims and desires.
I thought a commie version of this song would be something like:
This land is their land
I’m now a peasant
I do as I’m told
Or they will drag me
Off to the lockholes
Or to a Gulag
This land belongs to History
The shirt may have been too crowded if they included Fidel, but you have a good point . FWIW, they also left out Ho Chi Minh, Hugo Chavez, Maduro, the Ortegas, and (unfortunately probably not last or least), Pol Pot.
Maybe this verse will enlighten you: