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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:29 AM Jan 2014

The 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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The Rude Pundit: Okay, Tom Perkins, We Were Planning a Kristallnacht on the Rich (Original Post) meegbear Jan 2014 OP
You know the satire gene-lacking folks at Fox "News" and other wingers will report this as a threat. Scuba Jan 2014 #1
My thought exactly. rosesaylavee Jan 2014 #2
then guys like Perkins will really have something to shit their pants about yurbud Jan 2014 #17
Another disturbing aspect about Perkins's letter is his comparison of LuvNewcastle Jan 2014 #3
Yup, people forget that the Nazis avowed enemy was communist Victor_c3 Jan 2014 #4
It's in a different language JackInGreen Jan 2014 #7
"National Socialists" is as cynical a name as the "Federalist Society" yurbud Jan 2014 #19
Or as cynical as bolsheviks... malthaussen Jan 2014 #22
You nailed that... ReRe Jan 2014 #6
Exhibit A: Hitler's party was called the National SOCIALIST party nxylas Jan 2014 #8
... building on the uneducated thing Victor_c3 Jan 2014 #12
They also hated homosexuals. All the Right Wing shit. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2014 #30
They see "socialist" and think "leftist!!!" jmowreader Jan 2014 #32
Poor Little Rich Ass Hole Cryptoad Jan 2014 #5
It can all be explained by simple envy. sulphurdunn Jan 2014 #9
Ikr. Words fail to do justice to the ridiculousness of this RW BS. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2014 #31
Mr. Perkins would do well to look at the French Revolution and how that turned out for his type Bettie Jan 2014 #10
+1 Aldo Leopold Jan 2014 #18
Hey Mr. Perkins...consider yourself lucky durablend Jan 2014 #11
It was highly effective jsr Jan 2014 #15
The Jewish people were the "one percent"??? HughBeaumont Jan 2014 #13
Last I Saw The Numbers Were bkanderson76 Jan 2014 #14
+1 Lifelong Protester Jan 2014 #28
Kick people of Polish descent out of the United States? meow2u3 Jan 2014 #16
Ahem: Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany El_Johns Jan 2014 #29
His blatherings of being attacked remind of the English attacking the French castle in Monty kairos12 Jan 2014 #20
The Rude Pundit and only the Rude Pundit is qualified to answer this Perkins asshole.. mountain grammy Jan 2014 #21
No, no, no! A much sweeter revenge... malthaussen Jan 2014 #24
delusional rich. nt Javaman Jan 2014 #23
I think he's so afraid because he realizes something most of us don't: we outnumber them yurbud Jan 2014 #25
Proposal for a new rule: You are not allowed to bring up Nazis in a conversation unless you are: DetlefK Jan 2014 #26
I humbly volunteer to lead the opening charge.... Blue_Tires Jan 2014 #27
Just LOVE this Rude Pundit stuff! calimary Jan 2014 #33
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. You know the satire gene-lacking folks at Fox "News" and other wingers will report this as a threat.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:42 AM
Jan 2014

rosesaylavee

(12,126 posts)
2. My thought exactly.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:01 AM
Jan 2014

They won't 'get' it as satire, irony, etc. Mocking them goes right over their heads.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
17. then guys like Perkins will really have something to shit their pants about
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:57 AM
Jan 2014

which is too bad because their valet will be the one who has to clean it up.

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
3. Another disturbing aspect about Perkins's letter is his comparison of
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:04 AM
Jan 2014

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)
4. Yup, people forget that the Nazis avowed enemy was communist
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:24 AM
Jan 2014

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)
7. It's in a different language
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:55 AM
Jan 2014

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)
19. "National Socialists" is as cynical a name as the "Federalist Society"
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:01 AM
Jan 2014

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

(17,175 posts)
22. Or as cynical as bolsheviks...
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:37 AM
Jan 2014

which means "majority," chosen by Party leaders because they were the minority party.

-- Mal

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
6. You nailed that...
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:53 AM
Jan 2014

... 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)
8. Exhibit A: Hitler's party was called the National SOCIALIST party
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:56 AM
Jan 2014

Exhibit B: ...er...um...BENGHAZI!!!11

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
12. ... building on the uneducated thing
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:11 AM
Jan 2014

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)
30. They also hated homosexuals. All the Right Wing shit.
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 06:00 AM
Jan 2014

People are so stupid not to see this. The Nazis were not hippies.

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
32. They see "socialist" and think "leftist!!!"
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 06:55 AM
Jan 2014

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.)

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
9. It can all be explained by simple envy.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:02 AM
Jan 2014

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?

Bettie

(16,073 posts)
10. Mr. Perkins would do well to look at the French Revolution and how that turned out for his type
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:08 AM
Jan 2014

Than the Nazi era.

More parallels in the first than the second.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
13. The Jewish people were the "one percent"???
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:47 AM
Jan 2014

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.

meow2u3

(24,759 posts)
16. Kick people of Polish descent out of the United States?
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:55 AM
Jan 2014

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)
29. Ahem: Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 01:01 AM
Jan 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Germany


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

(12,843 posts)
20. His blatherings of being attacked remind of the English attacking the French castle in Monty
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:01 AM
Jan 2014

Python and the Holy Grail. It makes THAT much sense.

mountain grammy

(26,598 posts)
21. The Rude Pundit and only the Rude Pundit is qualified to answer this Perkins asshole..
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:09 AM
Jan 2014

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

(17,175 posts)
24. No, no, no! A much sweeter revenge...
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:40 AM
Jan 2014

... hand it all out gratis to local winos while he looks on.

-- Mal

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
25. I think he's so afraid because he realizes something most of us don't: we outnumber them
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 11:47 AM
Jan 2014

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)
26. Proposal for a new rule: You are not allowed to bring up Nazis in a conversation unless you are:
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 12:00 PM
Jan 2014

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.

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