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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: Okay, Tom Perkins, We Were Planning a Kristallnacht on the Rich
Yeah, you caught us, Tom Perkins, you old billionaire bourgeois piggie venture capitalist. You wrote to the Wall Street Journal to complain about how San Franciscans protest Google providing busing for its employees, rising real estate prices, and Danielle Steel (no, really, that's what you said), and you said, "Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?" Well, fuck, you just nailed that shit. And when you wrote, "I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its 'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich,'" you couldn't be more right if you had been in on the planning of our 1% Kristallnacht.
And now, not only are we not calling it off, but we're moving up the date. Oh, yeah. The Rude Pundit's been in touch with the rest of the progressive radicals itching to smash some glass. We are ready to go to all the well-guarded compounds of the superwealthy or their corporate offices and just break shit. It'll be exactly like Kristallnacht, when, in November 1938, rioters in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with a wink from the Third Reich, went all ape scheisse on Jewish property, on synagogues, businesses, cemeteries, and homes.
Man, breaking into Sheldon Adelson's enormous mansion, setting it on fire, trying to get into his panic room so we can make him kneel out front to watch it burn is exactly like when a mob destroyed an orphanage in Dinslaken, Germany. It's gonna feel awesome to act like the Nazis who got hear "The frightened and fearful cries of the children resound[ing] through the building." We hope Adelson cries out just as frightened and fearfully.
We'll go to the ass-end of no-fucking-where Arkansas and Texas to go after some Waltons and a Koch or two and the Simmonses. We'll be in mobs all over this here United States, just to punish success. We'll head over to William Dore's joint and tear it apart. Same with Peter Thiel and others. We won't be takers. We'll be breakers, tee-hee, just like the Nazis who shattered windows of stores and synagogues. Yeah, Tommy P., we'll destroy property, maybe even Fox "news" headquarters, and then, when we're done, we'll tell you to fix it all up. And that might take a day or two because, you know, you're super fucking rich and will still be super fucking rich after the glass is swept up, unlike the Jews whose lives were completely destroyed by German violence that led to the Holocaust.
We won't tell you when we're starting, Perkins. But, since we're taking our cues from Kristallnacht, we'll get to it just as soon as we kick all the rich people of Polish descent out of the United States and then one of you will have to assassinate one of our leaders (c'mon, you're itching to anyways). Then, just as soon as the Fuhrer tells us all to start marching, we'll Kristallnacht the fuck out of you.
Or, maybe, you could just stop being such assholes about a slight hike in the marginal tax rate and maybe support an end to anonymous SuperPAC donations. Oh, and let people bitch about Danielle Steel. Have you seen the size of that stupid hedge around her property?
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)rosesaylavee
(12,126 posts)They won't 'get' it as satire, irony, etc. Mocking them goes right over their heads.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)which is too bad because their valet will be the one who has to clean it up.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)left-wingers with Nazis. Glen Beck does that all the time in order to confuse people. RWers have been trying to tell people that Hitler was a leftie instead of the fascist that he actually was. We have to look out for that shit, or the next thing you know RWers will be calling us Nazis all the time and so many Americans will be confused that they won't know the difference.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)The Horst Wessel Leid, the Nazi Germany national anthem, was all about fighting the communist. They don't have to look any further than that.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Most of the fucks that would swallow perkins or becks line have a hard time reading full sentences, let alone something not in 'Murikan.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)The Federalist Society was originally going to be called the "ANTI-Federalist Society," but they thought that sounded too negative, so they cut off the anti even though it made them sound like the opposite of what they were.
Similar thinking must have gone into the Nazi name. Maybe they realized that if they called themselves the National Fascists, "Nafis" wouldn't sound as tough.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)which means "majority," chosen by Party leaders because they were the minority party.
-- Mal
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... which reminds of when they started calling Arab Americans or Muslims "Islamo-Fascists". What the hell is an "Islamo-Fascist", pray tell? All they do is confuse the uneducated. One begins to think they don't even know what they are touting, half the time. They make shite up out of whole cloth and then they wait to hear it repeated back to them. It's like they are "un-educating" the masses. "Dumbing-down" the populace. It drives me nuts when I hear them doing it.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)Exhibit B: ...er...um...BENGHAZI!!!11
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)it's hilarious that they don't know the difference between socialism and national socialism - two very completely different things.
Like you said, their battle cry should be "Benghazi!!!!!!"
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)People are so stupid not to see this. The Nazis were not hippies.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Which of course means any country with Democratic in its name must certainly be a democracy and adore Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Pure Sweet All American Freedom! (In reality, "democratic" in the name of a country is one of the biggest tipoffs that you're looking at a communist country.)
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Big Meany Progressives picking on him!
LMAO
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)It's not that you lost your job, your home, your family, can't pay the bills or can't get ahead no matter how hard you try in the wealthiest nation in history. It isn't because the Tom Perkins types rig the game and swipe the swag and you're still forced to play. No, it's because you're a lazy, envious untermensch, who doesn't appreciate all that the masters of the universe do for you and for the advancement of the human condition. See?
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Bettie
(15,997 posts)Than the Nazi era.
More parallels in the first than the second.
durablend
(7,415 posts)Nobody's wheeled out the guillotine.
Yet........
jsr
(7,712 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Talk about your immense and dangerous revisionism. Most of the Jewish people were really destitute and those that weren't got their possessions confiscated. Unbelievable that this fuck is getting away with this.
bkanderson76
(266 posts)Quite telling....85 vs 3.5 Billion and growing.....Game On
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)meow2u3
(24,743 posts)That's me, Rude Pundit. My paternal grandparents were Polish, so does that mean I have to go back to Europe?
El_Johns
(1,805 posts)He's making fun of the dork's claim that one day Germans just upped and started breaking windows. In fact, there were lots of precursors, such as the expulsion of the poles.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)Python and the Holy Grail. It makes THAT much sense.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)and, no surprise, Rude did it perfectly!
Personally, I want to break every fucking bottle of wine in Bill Koch's wine cellars, while he looks on.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... hand it all out gratis to local winos while he looks on.
-- Mal
Javaman
(62,439 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)and the minute people realize they have no power without our consent and cooperation, and we withhold that from guys like him, his power and eventually his money vanish.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)either german,
or either you and/or an ancestor of yours belonged to a minority-group that was targeted by the Nazis' genocidal campaigns,
or you are from a country the Nazis attacked.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)He just knocks me out!