Title: FROM RUSSIA WITH SHAME: MARK AMES RESPONDS TO VLADIMIR PUTIN’S LATEST SMACKDOWN ON MSNBC’S DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW Source:
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EXILE TV / AUGUST 9, 2011
FROM RUSSIA WITH SHAME: MARK AMES RESPONDS TO VLADIMIR PUTIN’S LATEST SMACKDOWN ON MSNBC’S DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW
By Mark Ames
Update: You MUST watch today’s Ratigan performance. If we’re not going to riot against all this crap like the rest of the world is doing, Ratigan will riot for us. [Video below]
Exiled Online editor Mark Ames went on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show Thursday to respond to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s latest trash-talking smackdown against America, in which Putin accused the world’s only superpower and leader of the free world of, “sponging off the global economy like a parasite.”
Ames is appalled at the shame of living through America’s bottomless decline: “A Russian autocrat calling America a ‘parasite’–like he’s some John Galtsky, and we Americans are just sponging off Mother Russia?! Which, okay to be fair, technically we are–but still.”
“America has become a punchline in Vladimir Putin’s standup routine–we’re the laughingstock of the world’s laughingstock!”
O, how the once-mighty have fallen, folks!
While our country’s political and media establishment are going about their foul business like they’re still running a Superpower, Ames told Dylan Ratigan’s viewers that it’s time for us to stop pretending that America isn’t going to shit. Instead of pretending like we’re still Number One, it’s time for us to start embracing the shame. And you can start doing that by getting out a paper grocery bag and hiding your face.
Embrace the shame, America!
Just in case you’ve forgotten why you should hide your face in a paper bag and be embarrassed as Hell about America’s decline, Ames reminds viewers why:
“Just a decade ago, Russia was our punching bag for our triumphant leaders and comedians. It was as though Russia only existed then as a hard lesson to the rest of the world in, ‘Do you see what happens when you fuck a free-world superpower in the ass, huh Mother Russia?’”
(Okay that last clause was edited to, “what happens when you mess with the best,” but still, you get the point folks.)
First step is recognizing and embracing the shame. The next step: Fighting back, RAT-FOCR style, as first discussed in Ames’ last appearance on the Dylan Ratigan Show.
Let’s FOC the RATs–we don’t really have a choice anymore, folks. We’ve tried fleeing. We’ve tried being partisan. We’ve tried cynicism, we’ve tried nihilism, we’ve tried romanticizing losing out to the pigfuckers of this world–and maybe that made sense in more prosperous times. But not today.
At some point, losing gets boring, folks–losing has lost its romantic appeal. We can FOC the RATs. And we will.
Sometimes there’s no choice left but to FOC the RATs. Which is why RAT-FOCR is moving forward. We’ll have to be a bit patient about this though: to FOC a RAT it’s got to be done right. It will take time to get it off the ground.
Meanwhile, watch Ames’ rant on Dylan Ratigan‘s show [full transcript published below], and make sure you keep a paper bag handy:
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