Either way, they’re getting forked
My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
I think I’d rather take my chances with the pitchforks
April 3, 2009
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My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
I think I’d rather take my chances with the pitchforks
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I think the administration has misunderstood who we’re breaking the pitchforks out for.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
“Sir, should our outfits fail, and as a result send the current economical and financial situation off into the deep end, those pitchforks won’t be coming after us. The target will be you and your administration. And possibly your party.”
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I think I remember a fellow named Robespierre saying something like this. Coincidence ? I don’t think so.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
in light of this comment, I have suggested to the organizers of our local TEA party that pitchforks should be used to support our placards.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
My pitchfork was aimed at the politicians and their appointees.
They’re the ones throwing my money in the air around their rich friends. They are the ones who attempted central monetary planning with the Fed, and GSEs.
Obama, Bush, Clinton, Paulson, Geithner, Bernarke, Franks, Raines, and most importantly Greenspan, all need the business end of a pitchfork.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Economic nitwit. We elected. We did.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
And the award for President Most Likely To Be Impeached for Blago-sytle fundraising goes to….
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Frankly, with a very few exceptions, I’d throw most of the politicians in Washington in the same stockade Obama seems to want for the overpaid CEOs. That includes our President, who is criminally unwise in what he is doing with the economy. We’ll be lucky to have a functioning economy when he’s done with us, even a socialist one.
Pitchforks? Let’s not stop there… stocks, anyone, or perhaps tarring and feathering?
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Therefore, Lord Obama, send not to know
For whom the forks are pitched,
They are pitched for thee.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Pitchforks, hell. Those are for peasants, not free citizens.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
There was a time when the rich did not trust the forces of the state to come between the mob and themselves. Chicago has a rich history of that. It’s also an ugly bit of history that we rightly moved past long ago. Is moving back to the days of the Pinkertons really change we can believe in?
blogged a bit more here
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
The only way the pitchforks were pointed anywhere but AT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is because Obama threw the CEO’s into their path as human shields.
This is totally the ACORN way. I know because I used to work for ACORN. They use the poor as pawns to get political power, all the while making the poor think ‘they care.’ Well, now in Obama’s shiny new position as POTUS, he is using red-blooded hard-working Americans as his pawns. –To strongarm private businesses into thinking WE the common man have pitchforks raised against CEOs. Of course we don’t. CEOs cannot tax me, take my guns, enslave my children, confisgate my property, strip me of my liberty, or put me in jail. The government can do all those and more. And has already taken steps toward some.
We’re not naive enough to buy into class warfare. At least I hope you are not. It’s OBAMA who is ginning this up. It is the ACORN way.
Now I’m not saying no CEO has made a bad decision or wasted money. But private businesses are accountable to their shareholders and customers. We have the power to take our business elsewhere in a capitalistic system. And businesses are free to fail. But when your government is lying to you?? And robbing you??? Placing debt shackles of debt upon your children and grandchildren?? Can we ‘take our business elsewhere’? No, we are subject to our government.
I know someone is going to say, “But they took the bailout money” But who gave it to them? The GOVERNMENT! Why bail them out to keep doing business as usual then demonize them for doing what businesses do? I’m telling you, Obama is not your guardian protecting you from the big bad CEOs. He is using you to grab yet more power.
April 4th, 2009 at 12:23 am
I think the Chicago Kid was offering “protection”. It is the Chicago Way is it not?
April 4th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Better check the stimulus to see what ACORN is doing with the $5B that Obama gave them. My guess is that they are buying a lot of pitchforks. We are now spinning out of control in a positive-feedback loop: (1) create a problem by introducing the corrupt government where it should not be and then (2) solve the problem by interoducing more government control.
April 4th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Tarring and feathering is treated as a prank. Just remember, tar isn’t a liquid except at temps high enough to leave second degree burns or better. Think that was funny in the days before burn wards? It was intended as torture and a warning to both the victim and his associates.
That’s why I always laugh when I hear people saying how much better our Revolution was than the French one. Strategically, yes. Tactically? Sam Adams gave lessons to Robespierre.
April 4th, 2009 at 6:23 am
SDN, is there part of “Pitchforks are for peasants” that you missed? What are you expecting, silicone seal and fiberglass insulation?
Americans are violent, violent people, and kinda sorta proud of it. The world keeps forgetting. Politicians keep forgetting. Cross them enough, for long enough, and they will, count on it, shoot you, stab you, hang you and burn you, not necessarily in that order. And they won’t even be nice about it. It’s just, well, how they roll.
I’m not saying I approve, mind you. But–I understand.
April 4th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Comatus–
My point was that pitchforks are the only weapons available to serfs: free and sovereign American citizens bear better weapons.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
In 1776 we didn’t use pitchforks and we didn’t go for the bankers. We The People were being oppressed by BIG Government who know what was best for the peasants (the people). So we asked them to leave and let We The People government ourselves. Since BIG government did not agree we used firearms to remove them from our sight. We need a new Spirit of 1776, and this tree of liberty isn’t from an ACORN
April 11th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Pitchforks…so Obama thinks the citizens of the United States are peasants? If you break his statement down, that’s what it means. Well, now we know what this guy thinks of us.