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KRUGMAN GIVES UP: Don’t worry, Paul Krugman! Once you accept the Hobo Jungle as an inevitability, you can start to plan your life there. And it’s still early. There are many spacious trash mounds left to stake out — some real steals. Get one near a sewer! You can fish for your own rats, which will be both the preferred food and currency within the Hobo Jungle. [Paul Krugman]
That Nobel Prize sure is real purty. I’ll give Paul two half-empty cans of creamed corn for it.
It’s always tease, tease, tease, you’re happy when I’m on my knees.
So c’mon explain me why…Do I sell or do I buy?
C’mon Dr. give me something I can use…Microsoft: Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Fuck California. I used to live there. I don’t live there anymore. The end.
I thought “Hobo Jungle” was a Wonkette-made-up term before watching Kit Kitteredge - An American Girl with my two daughters last night.
Great kids movie in which an 11-year-old girl reporter does some crackerjack investigative journalism to (Spoiler Alert!) exonerate two lovable hobo kiddie pals. Weirdest and kinda lamest onscreen performances I’ve ever seen by Joan Cusak and Stanley Tucchi.
“….a fanatical, irrational minority.”
Now WHO could he be talking about, I wonder?
Grover, no!!! Stop!!! (glug glug sputter gurgle) No!!! (splash struggle)
Lascauxcaveman: Yeah, you have two daughters. Right. Tell the truth, Caveman: you watched Kit Kitteredge at a PUMA house party with your fellow PUMAs!
krugman will be the richest monkey with the biggest depression vegetable garden with the most tastiest brussel sprouts in the hobo jungle.
Look Krugman, I bought The Conscious of a Liberal in hardback so I’m expecting you do to something more than just jabber as we slip under the waves.
El Pinche: Yeah, only premium yellowfin rat sashimi will be good enough for krugles.
Oddly, I had Krugman sign my copy of his book with “Don’t be cynical!”
Delicious: No. Fuck Mississippi… and Mr. Sippi too.
I’d stay away from teh sewers when this Time Machine hobo jungle comes. That is where the morlocks (bitter hillbilly fuckers) will surface from their subterranean Truck Nutz laden lairs to eat the eloi (us libruls).
If actual people’s livelihoods weren’t involved it would be fun watching the intransigent, bitchy Republicans plunge California into a completely evitable doom for no apparent reason, against the will of the governor they were all creaming over a few short years ago. But this seems to be what the party of Reagan is good at: Destroying something in order to save it. And then not saving it.
Prop 13 (limits property taxes from rising normally) and Prop 58 (balanced budget required) will doom California to death. California is the best argument there is against democracy.
>>trash mounds
So that’s how the kids spell “Michigan” nowadays.
comradepaulson: two half-empty cans of creamed corn? That Nobel prize better have a purdy mouth.
Can’t George Clooney just fucking run for governor already? I mean, it’s between him and the ebay chick or whatever, and even prop h8 voting closetcases wanna bang Clooney, so really there’s no loss here.
Hey Kruggy, GET OFF MY CRAP PILE!
the Conscience of a Quitter
jagorev: No, it’s the best argument against letting Republicans breed.
jagorev:
Good thing they’ve got a Teutonic Governor. Next he can declare Democracy a failed ideology, dissolve the General Assembly and bestow absolute power upon himself and invade Nevada.
SayItWithWookies: Bah! You’re having fun anyway!
When is Lex Luther going to blow that nuke on the San Andreas?
I am sick of this “Krugman” stealing my ideas. Damn that bastard. And his commenters too. This is a shame for humanity. I’m lazy:
Back in the year of our Lord, 1978, California voters passed such gleaming initiatives as “Proposition 13, which basically dropped property taxes for existing land owners. The effects of that measure (which are still heard with a RESOUNDING boom among newer home-buyers who do not get such glamorous and ridiculous perks and have recently lost their home because, well, that is the cool thing to do these days), have hurt revenue so much for the last 30 years that maybe, kinda sorta, it should be changed.
Also, like many Thriving Members of the United States (an organized UNION, mind you…. socialists), unemployment is apparently bad. Also. Losing your house doesn’t help either, but fuck it. Build more prisons and orphanages, because Republicans will refuse to raise taxes, Democrats wont change social programs, and the Governator isn’t worth the toilet he shits on. CELEBRATIONS ALL AROUND!”
CALIFORNEE DREAMIN’!11!!!!11!!1`1
Please, this is ridiculous. What are the chances that the United States will elect some idiot bad actor as President?
Anyway, if you had a beard like Krugman, wouldn’t you want a return to the Hobo Jungle?
Plus, he lives in New Jersey! Sure, Princeton, but, still, New Jersey! How do you know when the apocalypse happens anyway?
shortsshortsshorts: ITALICS HAS TAKEN OVER MY MACHINE. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP.
Of course, if California would just legalize, tax and control its largest agriculture crop, there would be no problem.
Maybe Krugman thinks we should do this nationwide?
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if all those Californians went back to Oklahoma during Great Depression II: The Wrath of Krugman? It would be like playing a Woody Guthrie record backwards.
comradepaulson: That is why I can’t play on Wonkette at work anymore (FOR NOWS)— except before playing Woody Guthrie backwards part, they have decided that the cut and paste strategy is apparently the best approach. It. Is. Terrifying.
comradepaulson: Beverly Hillbillies Movie II: Return to Possum Gulch
I’m good to go. I’ve already set out my traps & fired up the Sterno under the tin-can full of water. Now someone needs to ask Martha Stewart: seeing as it’s neither poultry, pork, beef nor fish, does one serve red or white wine with rat?
lulzmonger: A clear, unwooded meths. Bring bottle to body temperature under coat before serving.
Silly wonkette. Rats will be food. Rat tails will be currency.
Eat the rich. Start with an appetizer of foie dupont, move on to a main course of Rockefeller Flambeau and finish with some sugared Rosthschild Tendergroins.
Paul Krugman for Hobo King!
Lady, you lost me at lady.
jagorev:
Prop 13 isn’t the problem, it allowed hundreds of thousands of those on fixed or lower incomes to keep their homes while real estate prices went crazy.
There are numerous problems with ad valorem taxes that Prop 13 capped.
Why is real estate taxed & only real estate taxed on it’s supposed value, when in fact it’s actually not worth more until it’s sold?
Where California went wrong was not passing a capital gains tax on real estate that would reclaim some money when a property’s value skyrocketed through no cause of the owner’s, but because the area’s prices went nuts.
I’d also like to point out that the Founding fathers could have told California that requiring a super-majority for routine government action isn’t a great idea.
Anyway, my plan (as I’ve stated before) is to brew bathtub whiskey. And also, really bone up on using a firearm, so a rich person can hire me to protect him from the hordes of hoboes. Of course, when they actually try and storm his estate, I’ll be leading the charge and thus, will get first cut from his valuables. I’m hoping he has solid gold Trucknutz.
Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Unfortunately, you are an idiot. Prop 13 just meant that money that would have ordinarily gone to government for schools and mass transit and sex toys on demand went to banks, who devoided all to the latter.
When the CEOs of each Fortune 500 company have been rounded up & shot at dawn then I will know the revolution/apocalypse (depending on your viewpoint) has come. Until then the hobo jungle, or hobo space jungle (take your pick) remains but a scary myth to tell childrens at their bedtime.
We need a Stalin to come in, clean things up for a few years, kind of set us back to zero, then go away (before he starts starvin’ the kulaks and purging everyone who looks at him funny) so we can get on with life minus the huge corporations, wall street criminals and national security state.
Either that or a constitutional convention with government officials, elected or otherwise, and anyone worth over, say, $250,000 prohibited from participating.
Colander: He can’t be any worse than Der Gropenführer running the show….
In related Republicans-favor-dogma-over-practicality news, Bobby Jindal might not take all of the $4 billion in ARRA money slated to go to Louisiana. Hell, why not just slash Medicaid, unemployment and state jobs to get out of your $2B deficit instead of taking that filthy infrastructure lucre?
It’s a sad time for people who have always believed everything would be fine in the end. We’re getting it in the (rear) end, but there’s nothing fine about it. That’s what happens when the banks and the government use honey and Bengay as lubricant. Oh, they’re calling it an economic stimulus package, but it’s still awfully burny.
SayItWithWookies: Meet your next President. Bobby Jindal doesn’t just carry the name, but the RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. He is equal to the Tony the Tiger thing.
I grew up in L.A., a lot of great memories and prop 13 isn’t one of them.
It was the original Republican Trojan horse, and also happened to be the original bailout for the swells. A shameles hand-out to the trust-fund trash in neighborhoods like Hancock Park; they just couldn’t quite juggle private schools, club dues, roof repairs AND taxes on homes their grandparents worked hard for long before their parents re-gifted it to them. Prop. 13 became a rolling shit-storm, and the sons Reagan rode it to victory coast to coast. Californians are no dumber than the rest of the country; just a bit ahead of the curve.
shortsshortsshorts: Ideally his career will end before that — when he’s caught in an elaborate bondage device with naked 14-year-old twins, a monkey and a jar of honey-mustard dessing in what he tries to explain away as an exorcism.
SayItWithWookies: Some people call it illegal. They should refer to it as the “American Dream.” Also.
Not only does it legitimize the Republican party, but it creates a vernacular for social change. After all they sure don’t want them gays getting hitched. I say real change is a 14 year-old for every Republican. The money should come too, for the kinky stuff those fuck-heads are prone to.
*MONKEY* not money. 5 drinks is enough.
hobospacejungle: This covers 4 of my pet Constitutional Amendments:
1) Reverse the “Constitutional Person-hood” of Corporations by overturning Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Make corporations limited (and controllable) legal entities again.
2) Have completely publicly-funded federal elections and government, where it is illegal to accept or use any money (or items of value) from any source other than one’s government paycheck or the F.E.C. Candidates and officeholders would get a credit card (or line of credit) from the F.E.C. that would be publicly, instantly, constantly audited, with details published daily. Candidates and office-holders would face the test of managing The Public’s money, in full public glare, and they could not accept bribes without facing MANDATORY Federal Prison time.
3) Enshrine in the Federal Constitution the Constitutional guarantee of Privacy contained in
Article 1, Section 1 of the California state constitution of 1879 (which has withstood many challenges over the past 130 years)…. No more AT&T sniffin’ your data-trail, unless they truly have a good reason they can explain to a real Judge.
4) Federal Judges (and other holders of lifetime offices granted by Senate Confirmation) would have to get a 2/3 Senate confirmation vote… no more bitter ideologues like Chief Roberts John Justice who serve some shadowy corporate master that wants to undo my first 3 Amendments …
Voilà! Now keep your Stalin in your pants, Sailor!
PAbitter: Apparently,(see Prop. 8), a SIMPLE majority is enough to change the STATE CONSTITUTION!!!
WTF, CA??!!
Article 1, Section 1 of the California state constitution - short, sweet and very useful over the years… Prop 8 not withstanding…
jagorev: Hey dude, I totally resemble that remark.
hobospacejungle: Silly librul, the poors cannot govern a gove’ment. Also.
I meant to say, “And they always thought it would be an earthquake that destroyed California. It turns out all it takes is incompetence.” Having corrected myself, it’s still very depressing that people are discussing,/a> what will happen if the United States crumbles. Nearly everyone I’ve read believes the stimulus law just signed by the Big O would have been too small even before the Refucklickers managed to strip a LOT of beneficial spending. California may be in the most extreme crisis of all the states right now, but it doesn’t matter in which order everything collapses if it all goes down the toilet.
Also, whiskey stops the thinking. And thank goodness. Also.
BTW… I want to see a Victory garden & solar panels at the White House before April 1st…
“Malcolm” speaks up in the comments section- the crisis, to no one’s surprise, is the result of
“Consequence free lifestyles that do not require any form of payment by the individual enjoying that lifestyle.”
ITS TEH GAYZ
Bearbloke: Voilà! Now keep your Stalin in your pants, Sailor!
All excellent ideas I completely agree with, especially the ridiculous crap about a corporation being a person. That was the first step toward what got us where we is today.
All’s I’m sayin’ is, our Stalin could do all that in much less time, and leave a lot fewer objectionable people around to bleat about how unfair it all is. But if you want to, you know, go through a democratic process or something, fine. I’m on board.
hobospacejungle: Ok, fine - I’ll grow a Stalin moustache, if it’ll make you happy…
Bearbloke: Not a bad choice — ’staches are back in style!
First of all, what’s the deal with the italics today? Has everyone lost their slash key at once?
As for Krugman, I had to stop reading him. He’s starting to make me as Eeyore-ish as he is (Sure, the stimulus package got signed, but I lost my tail. Again.), and I just want to think happy thoughts. Till my house sale is finalized. Then it’s back to hating the Bitterz for destroying this country.
He was on that Frontline program last night about the Meltdown. The guy is more ubiquitous these days than those awful FreeCreditReport.com commercials.
Bearbloke: I’m pretty sure #2 will have to become law in order for the other 3 to happen. And bitchincamaro is on board!
When will Krugman learn? As we all know, the financial crisis was caused by George Soros, according to the reputable sources of various Putin-bot conspiracy theorists and this Republican tard…
SayItWithWookies: If California has budget trouble, isn’t it traditional to recall the Governor and waste millions on a special election? As I recall, that worked out pretty well last time.
I bet California wishes it had all the money that energy traders stole from them back in 2000. Anyone remember back that far? I think they figured out that poor Enron was bankrupted by Grey Davis’ bad Wall Street accounting or something. I forget, ’cause 9/11 changed everything.
Neon Trotsky: I saw that winger on Hardball screaming incoherently. I’ve learned, as have we all, that the weaker and more absurd Repubtard’s argument, the faster and louder they scream it. The true give on a winger pushing lies is when they foam at the mouth. These people are really rabid.
On the other hand, unlike most, I often enjoy Tweetie. You know this Soros-hating clown is only going to get one chance to be an “expert” somewhere other than on Faux news, and it’s always fun to watch them self-destruct.
This guy is so crazy, he should move to Oklahoma. He’d get on great with the bait shop owner up the dirt road from me.
peorgietirebiter: I read your message as “A shemales hand-out to the trust-fund trash in neighborhoods like Hancock Park…” and wondered what trannies were doing doling out tax cuts. Unless it was Ann Coulter. Also.
“This could be America next?” California is in … ? Is it officially part of Mexico now, and I missed it? Or did it finally break off into the ocean and declare its independence? Does anyone know?
lulzmonger: Flat pop with rat. Cold joe with squirrel. Beer abandoned on street after last call with pigeon.
comradepaulson: Yes, yes, yes. Please send them back here. But only the Democrats. Liberal migration is the one hope for us. I have 90 acres, plenty of room for Dubyaville. And lots of armadillos for Dubyahog.
How many hobobeans does one get for a Nobel prize trophy?
Look the only way we’re going to avoid devolving into Thunderdome is to raise taxes and do you really think Joe the plumber is going to let some left-wing bolshies get away with that, do you?
You can have my tax money when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.