Thursday, March 15, 2012

Conservative entrepreneurship


C'mon, you knew this stuff was out there. And it can all be your's for a small price.

This little number can be your's for only $6.99! What is the printing cost for bumperstickers? Greeting cards are sometimes marked up 1000%,

This one's the same price, but it really gets to the heart of it. See rednecks and conservative bigots are really kind of rebels, maybe even punk rock in reverse. Thomas Frank perused the pages of Trader Monthly, a magazine that seems to have shut down in fear now after the financial crash and reduced now to this silly blog. But in it's heyday before the crash, this was the Big Middle Finger to everyone outside of the insider class. Frank noted from their pages how they glorified the bonus culture and how traders at big wall street firms used their ill-gotten gains for trinkets like $300k record players and private jets.
The market this stumpy is targetting seems of a similar ilk. Show-offs, hardasses, wannabe toughguys, really insecure guys trying to project strength. But when it gets to horseshit like this:

You kind of have to draw the line.

Yes, republican dickheads, this guy speaks for you. If I see one of these stickers...
And all to get $6.99.
These are the toughguys. Bumperstickers. Threatening anonymous bill boards and internet postings.
Well, we used to know a thing or two about what to do with this shit.

Update: Apparently this story got some much press that the website went down and rendered all the "wonderful" pictures defunct. Two things. Was the owner so braindead that they thought they could put this stuff on the "world wide web" and only "their" kind of people would find it? So much for the redneck confed. flag sticker and it's "bold courage." These cowards folded faster than cockroaches scurrying away from the flourescent kitchen lights. This is not to say they are no longer dangerous. Gun + redneck + racist/confederate sticker=potential terrorist. But at least in this instance of movement entrepreneurship... they sucked... big... black... balls.

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