Ungrateful Bastards

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/4/24/112755/181

Ungrateful Bastards

by BooMan
Thu Apr 24th, 2014 at 11:27:55 AM EST


I haven't written about Cliven Bundy because I don't really give a crap about him. I am not surprised to learn about his belief that blacks were better off as slaves, but it actually doesn't lower my opinion of him. My opinion of him was already as low as it can get.

He's really just a mirror for the conservative movement. He's no different from the hundreds of thousands of white Kentuckians who complain about blacks on welfare while they are on food stamps and have subsidies that allow them to have access to quality health care for the first time.

Probably no president in history has done more to improve the quality of life for white Kentuckians than Barack Obama, but he doesn't get due credit for it because he's black and represents the "Black Party."

Cliven Bundy won't pay his grazing fees, but he complains about "negroes" who get government assistance. It's no wonder he became a hero to the conservative movement. He embodies their beliefs.

[ProSense]

1. I'd say that he's

He's really just a mirror for the conservative movement. He's no different from the hundreds of thousands of white Kentuckians who complain about blacks on welfare while they are on food stamps and have subsidies that allow them to have access to quality health care for the first time.

...worse.

Cliven Bundy is a Big Fat Million Dollar Welfare Dead Beat!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/13/1291642/-Cliven-Bundy-is-a-Big-Fat-Million-Dollar-Welfare-Dead-Beat

Let's face it, the reason the Militia is ginned up about this isn't because of 'Merica, or 'FREEDUM', it has to do with decades long case of affluenza. Bundy is a 1 Percenter, so he's admired for his thieving from the public coffers, while Wilma would rot in H.E. Double Hockey Sticks after being riddled with 12 gauge buckshot.

GOP rats jumping ship from the good ship SS Cliven Bundy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024864423

[freshwest]

10. Ain't that special? The One-Percenter Moochers hiding behind the Poors... n/t

[yuiyoshida]

20. They won't be able to hide behind them too long...

Most will be criminalized for just being poor...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017188875

[KansDem]

2. "Cliven Bundy won't pay his grazing fees..."

Fees heavily subsidized by the Federal Government.

Harry Reid had this to say about Bundy--

"By contrast, Cliven Bundy has spent decades profiting off government land while refusing to pay the same fair use fees as his fellow ranchers. Today, Bundy revealed himself to be a hateful racist. But by denigrating people who work hard and play by the rules while he mooches off public land he also revealed himself to be a hypocrite."

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-nevada-rancher-bundy-slaves-20140424,0,4670278.story#ixzz2zunlGbkE

Get 'em, Harry!

[Wounded Bear]

3. Frankly, I'd like to know...

how many of those RW gun nut militia wannabe supporters agree whole heartedly with what Bundy said. I'm pretty sure that the white supremacist meme runs pretty deep in that crowd .

[Blanks]

21. My question is this...

Weren't those folks out there fighting against the federal government ON A WORKDAY?

If you're unemployed, own a gun, live nearby, and not burdened with gainful employment - stop by and point your gun at the forest rangers.

It's not like you've got something better to do.

[kmlisle]

4. Excellent point! Welfare cowboys and racism are a dark side of american history

It seems like we are making some progress but its not going away any time soon. Between the psychopath billionaires and the losers who don't want to face reality we have a long way to go.

[Augiedog]

5. It's not just Kentucky

The entire ex-confederate states are the equivalent of a welfare ghetto. They have never pulled their weight in this nation. Why do you think so many military installations are in the South? With no military; they would all be sitting on their collective porches, as Bundy described, abort' n their babies and send'n the rest to prison. If the "South" left the United States as it continually threatens to do it would immediately become one of the poorest nations on earth and would have to declare war on the rest of us so that afterwards it could be rebuilt in a modernized version of the Marshall Plan. If they did leave they would have to create a new name, I suggest the Dumbass Nation.

[Worried senior]

6. We have the same thought

processes in WI, I've heard it in small towns around Milwaukee and up here where we now live.

[Skittles]

12. oh sure, it's everywhere

but it is definitely more prevalent and accepted in certain areas

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. Confederate states are, indeed, the greatest taxpayer burden on this nation. And they owe blue

states a thanks for keeping them from starving to death and living outdoors.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Look at all the defense department contracts going into those areas too.

[nxylas]

18. There's a movie idea in there

Dumbass Nation would make a good title. It could be a loose remake of The Mouse That Roared, with the Old Confederacy replacing the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

[geretogo]

9. Agree 100% . The question is are we going to let these creatures define our American culture

or are we going to stand up to them with millions in the streets and remove their kind from
our government and shun them in our communities ?

[Cha]

11. Good on Booman! mahalo, babylonsistah~

[DrBulldog]

13. Will Democrats campaign on this guy?

Any Dem candidate with a spine should now be shouting for the rest of the campaign "There it is for all to see, folks: Cliven Bundy. The true face of the Republican Party!"

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. We black Americans continue to assert the importance and centrality of race

in this country. We need more white liberals who are brave and willing to speak out and to do so loudly and willingly!!

[spanone]

15. k&r...

[father founding]

16. Occupy Cliven Bundy's farm,

I don;t believe in property rights, so I can squat on Cliven's farm.

[blkmusclmachine]

17. You are far too kind to the GOP.

[madokie]

19. Cliven Bundy is a TAKER

f* him.
sorry for the language

Doesn't recognize the government except when it puts money in his sorry ass pockets. Take his money and deport his worthless ass is what I say would be the right thing to do

[sellitman]

22. Whoever backed Bundy

Doesn't have the intelligence to even understand the blow back. It's that bad.

[olegramps]

23. Bundy is the epic Republican nightmare.

He brazenly displays the heart and soul of the Republican Party for all to see. His seething racism is the common core of working class Republicans. It is the key to comprehending how working class people who are struggling to exist consistently vote for those who have enslaved them in poverty. It blinds them to the reality that they are their own worst enemy. It totally diverts their attention to fact that they are little more than victims of the extremists right wing fanatics. They swallow the swill of the super rich that they are the victims of intrusive government policies that benefit the lazy 47% at their expense.

Reagan put the Middle Class on the road to their own destruction when they embraced his philosophy that "The government is not the solution but the problem." According to Reagan, the plight of the working class was due to hoards of lazy good-for-nothing minority welfare queens living off the hard working Middle Class along with corrupt unions. Reagan was little more than a second rate actor that got the biggest role in his career when he played President of the United States. His sole message was every thing would be just dandy if the government was to magically disappear. Despite all of his shrill condemnation of the excesses of government, I never heard him agree to forfeit his generous salary that was in large measure provided by the working class. Throw in a generous helping of victims of evangelical End-Timer charlatans picking their pockets and you are looking at the heart of the Republican working class.

[Hugin]

24. My feelings about the person Cliven Bundy have moved from anger to pity.

But, I will never feel sympathy for the man.

:pity: