{"id":1352,"date":"2016-12-01T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:30","slug":"get-what-you-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/get-what-you-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Get What You Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a heck of a song just in time for the, uh &#8230; it was 1998 when this came out. \u00a0So never mind that. \u00a0The lyrics are surprisingly terrible, by which I mean wonderful. \u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>Meet the New Boss<\/em> meets a touch of the old ultra-violence, eh? \u00a0Bolshii.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPAEFnVZVOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the band&#8217;s actual political leaning (I\u00a0suspect sadly that they are uniformly leftist dolts, saddled with a surplus of talent to burn off before drying out a never shutting up), there&#8217;s a message here besides the offer of violence in exchange for profitable and bourgeois falsity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not displeased with Trump&#8217;s picks for this and that. \u00a0I know how to take Yes for an answer. \u00a0Even if he filled the whole thing with establishment shilss from here on out, what am I going to do &#8212; complain that he should have lost to Jebbang if he were going to act like this? \u00a0The key point is that he hasn&#8217;t even started acting. \u00a0He can put in all the Romney (nice man, will be good to see him in public) and whomever else he wants, and he will still be Donald J (Jillionaire) Trump the President who don&#8217;t give a Fluke, with the windows down and the stereo up.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but we have you now, Ball Diamond Ball, you fickle half-assed hater! \u00a0What about all of this &#8220;gouge out the eyes of the #NeverTrump&#8221; stuff, and now suddenly making a separate peace (how Vichy!) with the very demons haunting the crankcase of American politics? \u00a0 Not necessarily. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1353 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/argument.gif\" alt=\"argument\" width=\"474\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>I have said before that Trump has a duty to put the thing together and make it work. \u00a0If he wants to stack it with clones, that&#8217;s his business, but he won&#8217;t get anything done. \u00a0To borrow some of the shrill flatus from across the street, that would be GUARANTEED SUICIDE, THE END OF THE PARTY, THE DEATH OF THE GOP, THE END OF THE REPUBLIC and so forth. \u00a0That is, I think it would turn out poorly. \u00a0And it&#8217;s not as though he made promises about position, to my knowledge. \u00a0Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. \u00a0Nobody will call you a Nazi (but don&#8217;t mention the war)! \u00a0You see, it is not <em>my<\/em> duty to put a coalition together. \u00a0That is Der Fue&#8211; Der Feur&#8211; Da Furrier&#8217;s responsibility. \u00a0Every coalition needs its door-kickers (I have never kicked a door). \u00a0Modern politics will continue to need its mean assholes, its argumentative jerks, its unreconstructed fellows who just can&#8217;t seem to get along with every darned ray of progressive sunshine that they meet.<\/p>\n<p>Like those guys from that one song that we were tlking about just a minute ago. \u00a0I mean, that&#8217;s a toe-tapper. \u00a0And it ends like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Health insurance, rip-off lying<br \/>\nFDA, big bankers buying<br \/>\nFake computer crashes dining<br \/>\nCloning while they&#8217;re multiplying<br \/>\nFashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,<br \/>\nCourtney Love and Marilyn Manson<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re all fakes, run to your mansions<br \/>\nCome around, we&#8217;ll kick your ass in<\/p>\n<p>All we are saying is give war a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1352\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1352\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a heck of a song just in time for the, uh &#8230; it was 1998 when this came out. \u00a0So never mind that. \u00a0The lyrics are surprisingly terrible, by which I mean wonderful. \u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>Meet the New Boss<\/em> meets a touch of the old ultra-violence, eh? \u00a0Bolshii.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the band&#8217;s actual political leaning (I\u00a0suspect sadly that they are uniformly leftist dolts, saddled with a surplus of talent to burn off before drying out a never shutting up), there&#8217;s a message here besides the offer of violence in exchange for profitable and bourgeois falsity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not displeased with Trump&#8217;s picks for this and that. \u00a0I know how to take Yes for an answer. \u00a0Even if he filled the whole thing with establishment shilss from here &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/get-what-you-give\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}