Beamers Benz and Bourgeois (Young Cons Takedown)

i told ya’ll i was gonna do this yesterday. in reference to this — a video where some conservative jokers from Dartmouth Review tried to make a Beamer Benz and Bentley remix about how the government’s number one job is to keep money out of the hands of poor people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USIv7C7uzQ0

so this is me ya’ll. most of ya’ll know how i roll. i can’t let this shit slide. hip hop ain’t the venue for extreme right-wing politics and it’s definitely not the venue for dudes who decided to rap two days prior to shooting a video. so fuck all ya’ll.

in other news, i marked this as a “video reply” to their video on youtube, but it says it’s “awaiting authorization” so i’m not holding my breath. please bombard the shit out of this video to anybody you know, and link here for context or something.

also in case you’d like to tell the young cons personally what you think about their wonderful sounds, why not hit them up on twitter at @YoungCons

oh and here is the song by itself w/ no video if that is more your steez: http://soundcloud.com/satellite-high/beamers-benz-and-bourgeois

peace ya’ll, be easy

More tea party hypocrites re: the welfare state

More goodness from Matt Taibbi:

I can’t even tell you how many people I interviewed at Tea Party events who came up with one version or another of the Joe Miller defense. Yes, I’m on Medicare, but… I needed it! It’s those other people who don’t need it who are the problem!

Or: Yes, it’s true, I retired from the police/military/DPW at 54 and am on a fat government pension that you and your kids are going to be paying for for the next forty years, while I sit in my plywood-paneled living room in Florida watching Fox News, gobbling Medicare-funded prescription medications, and railing against welfare queens. But I worked hard for those bennies! Not like those other people!

This whole concept of “good welfare” and “bad welfare” is at the heart of the Tea Party ideology, and it’s something that is believed implicitly across the line. It’s why so many of their political champions, like Miller, and sniveling Kentucky rich kid Rand Paul (a doctor whose patient base is 50% state insured), and Nevada “crazy juice” Senate candidate Sharron Angle (who’s covered by husband Ted’s Federal Employee Health Plan insurance), are so completely unapologetic about taking state aid with one hand and jacking off angry pseudo-libertarian mobs with the other.

They genuinely don’t see the contradiction, much in the same way that some Wall Street people genuinely can’t see the problem with their company, say, taking $13 billion in bonuses in the same year that they accepted $13 billion in state bailouts. You wave a pitchfork at them with little post-its of the relevant figures taped to the ends, and ask them to confess – and they can’t, because they literally don’t see your point.