SHE WON'T GO!
We love readers. So it pains us to call one out and suggest they stop reading. But these are special circumstances. Bill Johnson has work to do.
Bill Johnson is some dude who won the Republican primary for the office of Secretary of State. He is running against Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes.
Late last night, Bill posted a message and a link to his personal Facebook page, leaving the post “public” for all to read. (And you all should!):
Republican Secretary of State candidate Bill Johnson wrote:
The world of Bill Johnson according to Barefoot and Progressive. The story actually gave me a good laugh! And the classic Obama’s Been Lyin’ bumper sticker. Those stickers were sure popular! The picture of Dr. Dan and I standing face to face was great as well. Perhaps I need some No Address, No Vote bumper stickers. Hmm, not a bad idea . . .
And he included a link to a post Joe wrote back in July, The World of Bill Johnson, which highlighted some of Bill’s wackier views (though certainly not all of them, right Bill? What did Joe miss?).
Bill’s facebook post of course elicited several lovely responses:
You can click to enlarge that, but the highlights:
1) Bill Johnson has run out of his official campaign bumpersticker:
2) Joe is an “irrelevant, uneducated voter.” (This is actually true.)
3) Joe thinks he’s better than everyone and has the exact same mindset as Osama bin Laden (a statement Bill Johnson then agrees with… so watch out Kentucky, I hear Joe’s learning how to fly planes):
Don’t ever link to that rag. It’s liberal rantings from a person who thinks he is better than everyone else and thinks all those who are not like him are not worth the air they breath. You know, the same mindset as Osama bin Laden. Progressive? Try oppressive!
Now… again, we don’t like to discourage our readers from coming back, and we certainly don’t want to discourage them from additionally spending time posting B&P links to facebook. We like that sort of behavior.
But in Bill Johnson’s case, we’re pretty sure he has better things to be doing at midnight on a Wednesday than trolling the B&P website. Like, I don’t know, updating his own website for example.
If you go to his official website, “KentuckyBill.com”, and look at his events page, you see that you can get out and meet Bill back on April 15th to celebrate Tax Day with “Pro-Life leaders.” If you look at his blog, you won’t find a new post since July.
So yes Bill, it’s not that we don’t like the traffic, but if you hope to beat Grimes in November, you should probably get to work. If you waste all your time reading B&P and agreeing with your friends on facebook that Joe is basically Osama bin Laden reincarnated, well, you might be making a mistake.
Or maybe, Bill, you’ve just given up. But don’t tell us — don’t comment, don’t reply, don’t post this to your facebook page… you have a lot of work to do if you truly don’t want to get your butt kicked by Allison.
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BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
Love how he keeps harping on the millions of homeless people who vote, even on facebook. If I were him, I’d be courting them, because it looks like he’ll need all the help he can get.
Is there no one besides B&P and LEO with enough spine to say people experiencing homelessness are still citizens and legally allowed to vote? By the way, Bill, if you’re reading this: most of them are disenfranchised and don’t vote anyway, so it’s a moot point.
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hi’s fan’s sure are good at grammer and speling!
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Yet if one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar’s livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course–but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless. And as a social type a beggar compares well with scores of others. He is honest compared with the sellers of most patent medicines, high-minded compared with a Sunday newspaper proprietor, amiable compared with a hire-purchase tout–in short, a parasite, but a fairly harmless parasite. He seldom extracts more than a bare living from the community, and, what should justify him according to our ethical ideas, he pays for it over and over in suffering. I do not think there is anything about a beggar that sets him in a different class from other people, or gives most modern men the right to despise him.
Then the question arises, Why are beggars despised?–for they are despised, universally. I believe it is for the simple reason that they fail to earn a decent living. In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modem talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except “Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it”? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modern people, sold his honor; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich. George Orwell from down and out in Paris and London.
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