Whether you’re of the Judeo-Christian persuasion or one of those exotic religions, you’re probably required to give gifts to people some time in the next month. We here at Wonkette understand that this is patently unfair. Why should you have to sacrifice any portion of your earnings to, for example, the lazy marxist teachers in your life? If you can’t avoid giving them gifts because they’re something stupid like family, consider giving them the gift to end all gifts, the gift that ensures that that you’ll never have to buy them gifts ever again, because they will be empowered straight out of the moocher class: Atlas Shrugged II, not quite yet on DVD.
Who wouldn’t thrill, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Whatever morning, to unwrap a brand new copy of this fine film? Too bad, looters! No one gets to have the thrill of holding this masterpiece in their hands until February 19, 2013. Instead, you will hand your friends and relatives this very fine piece of paper that lets them know the greatest story ever told will be forthcoming. What? Well, of COURSE you have to print the gift certificate yourself. This isn’t a charity or Soviet Russia you collectivist slobs.
Brother-in-law not much of a movie watcher? Never fear. There are a wealth of other gifts you can give to teach the true meaning of Objectivism. Consider a stylish dollar-sign lapel pin that isn’t douche-y AT ALL. No? How about a handsome cap honoring one of the fictional companies in the book/movie/marketing juggernaut? For the lady in your life, make sure to pick up the laughably expensive anodized aluminum bracelet. You are for SURE getting lucky after she opens that treasure.
If you just cannot wait until February to share the good news of Ayn Rand with your friends and loved ones, consider taking them to see ASII when it is still in the theater. It will no doubt be much more thrilling on the big screen. If you live in movie-going metropolises (metropoli??) like Prince George, Utah, or Las Cruces, New Mexico, you are in luck! The rest of you will just have to repurpose an Advent calendar and count down the days until February.
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Needz moar Atlas Shagged.
Or Atlas Humped.
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You vote Republican. Repeatedly.
Is it just me, or has our Wonket's page rendering gone into the shitter?
Wonket is rendering unto me what is mine. I am completely normal.
I thought these were 5 signs you have Alzheimers.
You filibuster your own bills
Speaking of ads – why do I not get the Russian brides ad? Why does Wonkette hate me so?
Las Cruces, NM? Isn't that where Sara Benincasa is from? Save me some Junior Mints, I'm on my way!
…and isn't N.M. full of brown folks and hippies? What's that movie doing still playing there? Trying to draw viewers from El Paso (which is also full of brown people, in addition to True Americans)?
Maybe they should move the movie over to Los Alamos, not too far, and get really bombed. Readings from the Bhagavad Gita in 3, 2, 1…
Lo, I have become the destroyer of studio profits.
Sweet mem, a Robert Oppenheimerphile.
The cool thing is that to get from El Paso to Las Cruces, you have to drive by 20 miles of cattle feedlots there on I-10. Even if you hermetically seal your head in Saran Wrap there is no escaping the smell of the shit. Kind of an apt metaphor, considering the source material from which the movie is derived.
Depends on the part of the state. I got stuck going to a particularly nasty part of the state for years for family reasons, and it was a nearly 100 percent white trash community surrounded by reservations and BLM land, where browns and hippies would not have been welcomed.
I got a tattoo in Las Cruces.
It was before the blahunist seized control of the country.
Hey, it's where I live! And, that is the discount theater. Tickets are $3 a movie. However, on the theater's obviously commie website, they're claiming it's not playing!
These people make me want to go Galt hunting.
They tend to be fat and lazy. No sport to the hunting at all.
You're doing it wrong. You trap them on a jungle island and let them live off the land for about a month, then the strongest will have devoured the weak and it will be all Lord of the Flies and THEN you go in and hunt them down.
Video cameras all over the island, sell the footage as a reality show, too.
Just like high school!
Yeah, but by then, they'd be all tough and stringy. Bitter too. But they started out that way…
With votes!
Santa, why do you hate freedom?
Do you think its a coincidence that Santa wears red?
He's a pinko commie.
Satan's anagram.
"Santa Claus wears a red suit, he's a Communist.
Has a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist.
What's in that pipe he's smoking?"
-Arlo Guthrie, "The Paws of Sandy Claws"
You can't fool me: there ain't no such thing as a Sanity Clause.
~
KarlChico MarxShouldn't the sequel to Atlas Shrugged be called Atlas Shrugged Again?
Randy.
Not sure how Randians count, ordinal or cardinal-wise. Maybe Ayn, swine, dry, fear…
Oh, ausgezeichnet.
Atlas Shrugged 2: Electric Boogaloo
"Atlas Said 'Meh'."
Atlas Shrugged 2: The Embiggening
Atlas Shrugged II: This Time its Personal!
Atlas Shrugged, episode II: Attack of the Clowns
Atlas Shrugged and the Temple of Dumb
Atlas Shruggederer
26 bucks for the Official Atlas Shrugged Part II 20th Century Motor Cap which looks like it's been through the garbage disposal.
Re: Gift suggestions. My friends and family will get nothing, and like it.
Ebenezer, is that you? ;0)
Do you give them the 20 minute lecture on self-reliance for free or do you charge for it?
Mine too (or neither, or… whatever). Do you work for Scott Walker too?
May I have some more coal please sir.
Good for you! Charity only hobbles their resolve.
All gifts you buy should be for you.
Here's a gift they'll appreciate more. No, not the poster, but what it advertises:
http://www.rubylane.com/item/554337-OT-1159/David…
the most awkward after sex conversation I have had was when the couple I had just done the nasty with revealed they were big Ayn Rand fans
"Dang, is that the time? Gotta go!"
You're forgiven, my child. Now say 100 Hail Marys, reread "The Shock Doctrine" and vow never to sleep with an Objectivist again.
Objectivist (s).
I *hate* it when that happens.
I’m guessing they’re mostly focused on achieving their own orgasm, amirite?
Ten minutes of sex and four hours lecturing you about how shouldn't rely on anyone else to get you off.
Is there sales tax? Forget it!
All I can say is kill whitey. Votes, blah blah blah.
"Regular" votes or "blah" votes? There is a difference, because blah!
I was going to go all Wonkateer wall to wall this x-mas. It'll infuriate my wingnut fambly. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
Yes indeed, why on earth is the Wonkette not pushing its own wares, at all, ever, they've never done that in the least ;)
Also too, Pandagon has some natty T-shirts that any guy would love…
We can swap Old Handsome Joe mugs?
Good idea. Thrown in a Woody Guthrie CD and a subscription to The Nation and you have the true spirit of X-mas.
Very disappointing. The "personalized DVD" option just gets you a copy with your name printed on it…so, like, if your brother tries to bogart it you'll be able to show it to your mom and she'll know (finally) what an evil bastard he is. I was hoping that "personalized" meant you could buy an edition wherein your own face was digitally pasted onto one of the characters for the entire film a la Mark Leyner.
Also, how is it you know my brother?
It's every sibling. The desire to be proven righteous in the eyes of your parents and subsequently to see you sibs banished from the home is probably the root of all religion and consequently of all evil.
Or all characters, like Being John Malcovich.
For most of this film's target audience it needs to be released on VHS.
Not Super 8 mm?
Beta.
Cuneiform.
On papyrus.
From the reviews for the Official Atlas Shrugged Rearden Metal Bracelet
PT Barnum now rolling in grave for being born too soon.
Also, English teachers cry:
At least we'll know whom to point, laugh at, and utterly avoid though. AmIrite?
That's using your noggin.
Even better than a Romney/Ryan bumper sticker, which fairly screams "give me a wide berth"…
Aw, takes me back to my days of ad writing, when probably the same brain cases thought they were being clever by dictating an ad that contained sentences made up entirely of random nouns, adjectives and verbs with no particular order.
Poor Anna. She's a lunatic.
that is seriously the ugliest goddamn thing i've ever seen.
The perfect gift for the Ayn Randian in your life:
"I spent the money on myself, because on you it would only be wasted."
Have we checked photos to see how many the zombie-eyed granny starver is wearing?
It's even a great gift for your favorite dog who like to play catch with a frisbee by using this DVD. It's durable for a while but your dog will like it. Yet, only if your dog can handle the toxic chemicals from the Atlas 'Failed' Shrugged Part Puke DVD that was likely made in China.
So…is this deliverable by the US Postal Service?
Love this bracelet, bought for my neice, who is a fanatic for Atlas; thinking of buying one for myself. High quality, very cool and the anti-looter statement makes life worth living!
Her "neice", (really wingtards?) is probably about fiddy years old. And "anti-looter" means she's on SSI and Medicare.
I must say, labeling these bozos with bracelets, et al., *would* make it easier to avoid them…
So we've got the camp in Idaho, ID bracelets … we are well on the way to having FEMA camps without the trouble or expense of the government having to do anything!
I never understood why it takes so many words to justify greed. When my son was less than two years of age he would simply scream “MINE”.
Because publishers won't pay you a fat advance fee for a one-word novel?
We outgrow that level of candor.
This will work out well as my new years resolution is to piss off and/or alienate all of my family and friends.
There are cheaper ways to do that.
My aunt managed to piss everyone in the family off by making Heifer Fund donations in their names for Christmas in lieu of gifts.
Righteous indignation and someone in Africa got a goat.
That's the funniest thing I've heard so far to day. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
Sounds like your aunt got a few goats too.
Is your aunt single?
No, though she was at the time.
My mom was actually pretty happy about it, she thought it was great, and then was annoyed by her mother and other sister's reaction.
I give to Heifer Fund for my sister on mother's day.
I kind of want the dollar sign pin. Does that make me a bad person?
Yes. Even if you just want it ironically.
Damnit.
Are you trying to get the Editrix to spank you for Christmas??
If you take and post pics it's the gift that keeps on giving.
That was Cain's motivation
Give The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Like something in a nice STD perhaps?
Ayn Rand is intellectual Herpes. It's mostly benign but the stigma is a stain on your social life.
Donate to the American Canker Society.
The movie is playing in Prince George? Orange line?
my perfect galt holiday gift arrived with the arrest of the wingnut baldwin for tax-dodging.
"Vera, that boy's not right."
I'd rather send people my poop in a box then make them suffer watching Atlas Snored Part 2.
I'd probably rather receive that than have to watch that movie.
Giving this DVD as a gift…altruism, enlightened self-interest or just plain-old dickishness. Let he who hath never given a mix tape/cd cast the first stone.
consider taking them to see ASII
i read that as ASCII and it's about as relevant.
ASCII would actually be more readable.
Smoke up, Johnny!
I'm just about out of beer coasters, so maybe I'll buy a couple dozen of these DVDs.
Or used as Clay pigeons for skeet shooting.
Those comments on that crap; I still can't believe I share a planet with people who think like that.
Oh goody! This is playing in my town. At the second run, discount theater. Take that, Galt!
One Dolla, You Holla.
Gift giving is for looters.
Gift receiving is for Obama voters.
We all know the sequel is never as good as the original (Atlas Continues to Shrug?). But, in this case they both suck balls.
Jay and Silent Bob would agree
I think I'm going to forgo all the Xmas brouhaha this year, and just go ahead and put my eye out.
But it is not real Rearden metal. . . .
Having Randroids "go Galt" (minus the suicide by cop and spree shooting method most use) would be the bestest Christmas ever.
The book has made me more religious. Every time I read about how Greg Mankiw will stop working and stop creating 'job' if he has to pay one more penny in tax, I pray to God to make it happen.
Oddly enough, in the so-called 'Free Market' of Google Shopping, there is not a single gift set of AYN RAND DILDOS to be had.
DISAPPOINTED!
Atlas shrugged is the Jan Brady bible. People spend their lives telling themselves that only they do the work while others get undeserved attention.
Bit o' trivia — According to imdb, Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (pro-union agit-prop?) had a budget of $10,000,000 "(estimated)" and has grossed just $3,333,823.
Looks like the film has a problem with the idea of "profit", according to IMDB.
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$1,746,025 (USA) (14 October 2012) (1012 Screens)
Gross:
$3,333,823 (USA) (23 November 2012)
Just goes to show how out of touch Hollywood is. The kids want to see light sabers and dancing penguins, not railroad deregulation.
Darn liberal capitalists.
Shall we shrug now, or shall we shrug later?
Meh.
and it says.. "Happy Holidays" !!! gosh darn Christ hating atheists!!
Only giving amazon.com gift cards(through Wonkette, of course). Never expire, something for everybody, no shipping/handling charges. FIXED!
Needz moar Ewoks.
Makes a good Xmas present, oh wait, Rand didn't believe in religious events.
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