For reasons beyond the human ken, the National Review thought a great way to celebrate its 60th anniversary was with this video: an animated all-singing, all-dancing history of the modern conservative movement, at least from the moment that William F. Buckley decided that he would make a magazine.
You'd think a party that advocates "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" would be wildly opposed to low inheritance taxes. I have to admire Frank Luntz and Grover Norquist for getting the rubes to think that THEY were somehow going to be personally affected by an estate tax, that started at $2 million. Renaming the estate tax the "death tax" was a stroke of genius.If you're lucky enough to inherit $2 million, and you have to pay 50% in taxes, you should be thanking your lucky stars. I think now the estate tax doesn't kick in unless it's a ten million dollar estate.
What's frightening is that the GOP did NOT want to be associated with the JBS. They kicked them out because they were too extreme and would fuck up their chances of winning elections. The point I was trying to make was that the Koch brothers father was one of the founders of JBS, and now instead of repudiating the Kochs, the GOP is embracing them. To me this just shows how far right the GOP has moved in the past 15 years.
The NR did repudiate the JBS in the 1960s. Fred C. Koch was one of the founders of the JBS, and now his two sons have their very own GOP primary where they can get the GOP presidential candidates to dance for them in exchange for money. What I'm trying to say is The NR is bragging that they killed the JBS in the 1960s, but meanwhile the ENTIRE GOP is now one large JBS. It's kind of sickening that the Kochs used to be considered far right wing lunatics, and now they're respected members of today's GOP.
Um, um, er... Lessee, back in the day (that would be the sixties and seventies) in colleges (and elsewhere) there were a lot of *socialists* and socialist-leaning folks. Communists? You mean the joke that the CPA was, where most of the dues were paid by FBI informers?
'55? Isn't that when *REPUBLICAN* President Ike sent the troops into Selma, so that a tired black woman could ride the bus in whatever seat she wanted?
"Worthies"... isn't that what Old Europe's nobility, and the jumped-up tradesmen who were filthy rich were referred to as?
Why are the guys in that video all wearing red ties? Red is the *left* wing color. I mean, unless they're claiming to be Stalinists....
One last note: I read an interview with Goldwater from the late '80s, not long before he died, where he was *horrified* by how far to the right the GOP had gone.
I grew up in the 1960s, and I thought this country would get progressively better, but instead the country has decided to go backwards. It's sickening. The modern day GOP is just as racist and xenophobic as Fred Koch ever was.
And they are still correct.
Sort of like George Lucas and the Star Wars Holiday Special, that Carrie Fisher uses to scare away hangers on after the party is over.
At least they are all dead!
METH!
Yeah. You and everybody else.
You'd think a party that advocates "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" would be wildly opposed to low inheritance taxes. I have to admire Frank Luntz and Grover Norquist for getting the rubes to think that THEY were somehow going to be personally affected by an estate tax, that started at $2 million. Renaming the estate tax the "death tax" was a stroke of genius.If you're lucky enough to inherit $2 million, and you have to pay 50% in taxes, you should be thanking your lucky stars. I think now the estate tax doesn't kick in unless it's a ten million dollar estate.
Moar tax cuts please!
It's "Dennis Miller" funny.
I actually kinda like that song. But I am pretty simple.
What's frightening is that the GOP did NOT want to be associated with the JBS. They kicked them out because they were too extreme and would fuck up their chances of winning elections. The point I was trying to make was that the Koch brothers father was one of the founders of JBS, and now instead of repudiating the Kochs, the GOP is embracing them. To me this just shows how far right the GOP has moved in the past 15 years.
The NR did repudiate the JBS in the 1960s. Fred C. Koch was one of the founders of the JBS, and now his two sons have their very own GOP primary where they can get the GOP presidential candidates to dance for them in exchange for money. What I'm trying to say is The NR is bragging that they killed the JBS in the 1960s, but meanwhile the ENTIRE GOP is now one large JBS. It's kind of sickening that the Kochs used to be considered far right wing lunatics, and now they're respected members of today's GOP.
Um, um, er... Lessee, back in the day (that would be the sixties and seventies) in colleges (and elsewhere) there were a lot of *socialists* and socialist-leaning folks. Communists? You mean the joke that the CPA was, where most of the dues were paid by FBI informers?
'55? Isn't that when *REPUBLICAN* President Ike sent the troops into Selma, so that a tired black woman could ride the bus in whatever seat she wanted?
"Worthies"... isn't that what Old Europe's nobility, and the jumped-up tradesmen who were filthy rich were referred to as?
Why are the guys in that video all wearing red ties? Red is the *left* wing color. I mean, unless they're claiming to be Stalinists....
One last note: I read an interview with Goldwater from the late '80s, not long before he died, where he was *horrified* by how far to the right the GOP had gone.
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That's some window, that Overton Window.
I grew up in the 1960s, and I thought this country would get progressively better, but instead the country has decided to go backwards. It's sickening. The modern day GOP is just as racist and xenophobic as Fred Koch ever was.
Oh, well, have a nice Thanksgiving!
He was just repenting on his death bed for jeebus, probably.But it does sort of make you go hhmmmmm
Ah, I don't think so, as I thought he was Jewish....
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