Wingnut bloggers threaten to 'Go Galt,' withdraw from economy till it collapses

Tristero from Hullabaloo explains the whole stupid idea for you:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/go-galt-go-by-tristero-best-idea-in.html

Go Galt, Go!

by tristero

The best idea, in fact the only idea, the right has had in a long, long time: take their rubber ducky and go home:

Some people are laughing at wingnuts who are ‘going Galt’ by signing up for Medicare early. Me, I think it’s wonderful that the right is discovering the joys of solidaristic (well, sort of) strike action. So much so that I’m asking readers to encourage the leaders of this movement (Facebook group1 – I hope but don’t know whether this link will work for everyone) to take the obvious next step.


The ‘Go Galt, Go!’ Manifesto



We proudly salute “Dr. Helen,” Glenn Reynolds, and Michelle Malkin, for identifying the only possible response to Barack Obama’s victory – ‘going Galt.’ By withdrawing their creative and intellectual achievements from the economy and stopping tipping waitstaff, the schmibertarian right can surely bring the parasites and Democrats to their knees. We look forward to these three thought leaders striking the obvious first blow, by refusing to blog for the ungrateful masses and withdrawing to a secret compound until the world capitulates to their demands! Only a universal wingnut blogging strike can bring the moochers to their senses. John Galt lives!



1 We also have a Crooked Timber group by the way.

For those of you who don't get the reference, John Galt is the copper-haired, white-boy protagonist in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Galt leads a revolutionary movement in which all the top leaders of the banks and corporations forsake their corporate jets and perks to work in diners or as subway repair guys. No they weren't fired by Galt. Rather, Galt urged them to go on strike and withdraw their expertise from an increasingly socialist world. Deprived of the genius of their genius, the world economy collapses. Another remarkable feature of Atlas Shrugs's world is that despite being set in some unspecified late 20th Century America, there are almost no airplanes, only a vibrant and profitable rail system which is run, in all but name, by a 35-year-old blonde woman.

Even in their fiction, the right is wrong about everything.

:rofl:

Not their creative and intellectual achievements! Anything but that!

I mean we will be deprived of their clever signs and wound care!

:rofl:

:applause:

that never gets old...

n/t

:crazy:

How will the economy ever recover?

Oh yeah. We'd have equal rights, a vibrant economy, peace, universal health care, etc. What a pity. :sarcasm:

They just get dumber and dumber.
GAC

Obviously, you are not a snackroeconomist.

mikey_the_rat

My doggie and i LOVE us some Cheetos.
GAC

Perfect size and shape.

mikey_the_rat

virtually no attorneys or any of the egregious laws being challenged in the courts. It's like the judicial system didn't exist.

out of those over-long discourses by the main characters. In the end, I decided to enjoy it for the sex and adventure and thrills, and ignore the politics.

Another poorly written piece of tripe people read and think they kind find meaning from. If you find meaning from books and not in the real world you need fucking help.

In Rand/Freeper/Bush/Greenspan wishful thinking everything works out exactly as expected

It enabled the elite to feel sorry for themselves.

If justice is served at all, these overpaid blowhards are going to see their taxes going very high, so they won't be able to "withdraw" from anything.

was BFF with Rand.

went like this: "in anyway I am anybody's Atlas, I will now shrug"

...a portable, slurpable tube of bacteria and FAIL.

They discover that they aren't really the driving force behind creative and intellectual achievements and actually fit in really well working in diners... actually I bet most of these people in no way could work as subway repair guys.

held down by useless, wealthy, talentless snots who were born with the "right" last name.

A person has to be 65 to qualify for medicare.

Creative and intellectual achievements? Holy shit I laughed so hard I almost had a coronary. See these asswipes are so high on themselves they really are convinced of their self importance. They are willing to harp all day long reminding us mere commoners of how unimportant we are as disposable labor; that we can be replaced at a moments notice. Some how these jack offs fail to realize that the same applies to them. It never occurs to them that like nature; society abhors a vacuum, and if there is a niche to be filled when they go off and play "camp", some one will fill it. If some stupid freeper closes down his filthy little greasey diner, someone else will open one up.

vast, empty spaces of pathetic nothingness thrive.

will plummet. This must be stopped!

And they could all fix their own streets and deliver their own mail, generate their own power, police themselves, etc.


Anything to get them out of my hair. I say go for it.

Go work the land asswipe!

First the economy, then the country, then the planet.

Elections happen and they lost. Instead of developing a better philosophy and message along with a candidate to carry that message, they choose to try and break our country into bits.

Like David Sirota told a wingnut on the radio this morning - "Then maybe this country is not for you."

waitstaff, our dining experiences will decrease and more of us will stay home and cook.

The ones who 'went Galt' in Atlas Shrugged were the captains of industry, not the ignorant lowlifes that populate FR. I doubt they could 'go Galt' any more than they already do in their real lives.

Doesn't that fact make their little cognitive-dissonance pointy theocratic heads explode?

...not sing, either?

Wow. Cool. Someone please tell The Nuge about the plan.

Atlas Shrugged should have gone something like this: Dagny Taggart refuses to stop at a red light, flouting regulation out of enlightened self-interest. Hundreds more do the same, for the same reason. What's the end result? A huge fucking trainwreck, since nobody stops at the fucking red light. The train companies are bankrupted, the mess is cleaned up at the public's expense, and all the train magnates escape with their personal fortunes intact.

of their enormous expertise and genius. (And enormous egos, too!)

Mercy snakes alive. I am getting a bad spell of the vapors from even the PROSPECT of such an insurmountable loss to what's left of our economy!:scared:

:eyes:

...Someone should rename that piece of shit and call it Atlas Mehed.

Why share their intellectual brilliance with the rest of the world?

jerks were anything but parasites from the git-go!

everything with very little effort.

THEN we might have a chance at starting to do some serious damage control on the mess Cheneybush left us.

oh noes!