The Obscure Charm Of The Plutocracy

By T Bogg

..and here is what Mitt Romney’s people will be attempting to defuse on Monday after Mitt’s Hamptonspalooza:

A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.

“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”

…and

Laura R. Schwartz of New Jersey, the woman inside the Range Rover, complained that Mr. Obama had not visited Israel as president, a slight to the country, in her eyes. “I don’t think he is good for Israel,” she said. Mr. Romney, she said, “is a fresh face.”

A few cars back, Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel in Sag Habor, N.Y., long a favorite of the well-off and well-known in the Hamptons, could barely contain his displeasure with Mr. Obama. “He is a socialist. His idea is find a problem that doesn’t exist and get government to intervene,” Mr. Conklin said from inside a gold-colored Mercedes as his wife, Carol Simmons, nodded in agreement.

Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband’s generous spirit: “Tell them who’s on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!”

Over Mr. Conklin’s objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive from Miramax, the movie company, was on the 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were no rooms left at the hotel.

In Southampton, where Mr. Koch lives, the local police spent much of Sunday gearing up for as many as 200 protesters, a rare sight in these precincts. It would be “the first large-scale protest” the village has ever had, Chief Tom Cummings said.

The packed schedule of fund-raisers seemed to create some confusion among the guests. As he pulled up outside Mr. Perelman’s estate, Ms. Schwartz’s companion initially wondered if he was the home of the Koch brothers.

Oh, he said, not yet.

“We are going to all of them,” Ms. Schwartz explained.

Suddenly wealthy entitled house & horse mom Ann Romney looks like Mother Teresa…

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Responses to “The Obscure Charm Of The Plutocracy”

thingwarbler July 8th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
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I don’t know if this sorry-ass bunch of A-grade grifters and unrepentant nation rapists could do much to improve Anne’s entrenched position as one of them.

As far as I can tell, this is shaping up to be the 1-percenter equivalent of an Alabama cookout — free market incest, if you will, where the guy who sold your company short and made a few billion is flirting with the wife of the guy who later sued the shareholders and made a few billion, but he doesn’t know that she’s already having an affair with the hedge fund manager who…

Spaghetti Lee July 8th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
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A Mercedes, a yacht, and dinner with a movie exec-or as the Romneys call it, “Tuesday.”

gunsbeforebutter July 8th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
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Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P.

Arriving by car, instead of by helicopter, is simply barbaric.

V.I.P.Bitchez.Get some!

creature July 8th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
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When the Kenyan Usurper reigns victorious this November, the butt-hurt outrage will be a technicolor bukkake of wonderfulness, all over schmucks like these.  The average Amurkkkin is not a fan of piss down their backs, as the trickle-down economic system of Rmoney has been exposed to be.
If the black guy loses, we’re pretty much fucked for quite a while.

jhudson July 8th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
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“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”

Funny, I’m lower income and didn’t go to college but I totally get it.

Dumbasses.

tech98 July 8th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
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Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P

Very Inbred Parasites, yes you are.

Lesley July 8th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
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The East Hampton Snookis value people who value greed.

Teddy Partridge July 8th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
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A — are we sure the Mercedes wasn’t solid gold?

B — “everybody who’s got the right to vote:” But we’re working on that!

Teddy Partridge July 8th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
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If people are going to all of these $75,000 a plate fundraisers in the Hamptons this weekend, there’s some serious FEC violations afoot.

Hahahahahaha!

danielx July 8th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
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A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.

Clearly this woman’s whole world has been devastated by the Kenyansoshulistislamofascist imposter currently residing in the White House – that Range Rover is probably two years old. The White House being the house of the people, don’t you know. Her people, that is. At this point Romney deserves to lose if for no other reasons than his supporters’ mind numbing lack of self-awareness and his campaign staff’s complete lack of knowledge about how quickly his campaign is running off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Fuck them. Because why? Because fuck them.

Gonna be a traffic jam of rusty Ford F-150 tumbrils one of these days…

petesh July 8th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
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Yeah, right. The rich cannot fail (all together now) they can only be failed.

Stock tip, for anyone with spare cash: Buy companies that own TV stations, the ad revenue is going to be enormous. I just hope the ads dont work.

tejanarusa July 8th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
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Funny, I’m educated (in fact, I’ve been called over-educated)but also lower-income (much as current college graduates are and will be for awhile). And I’m pretty sure I get it. Though I’m sure what I get and what she gets, aren’t too similar.

How does anyone “educated” actually believe that Obama is a socialist? Do they watch Faux News, too?

discoclark66 July 8th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
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Over Mr. Conklin’s objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive from Miramax, the movie company, was on the 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were no rooms left at the hotel.

I’m sure “the common person is getting it” that Charity begins on your yacht…

First Book of Icksleazyastics, 3:11-13

And the Shepard asked, was there no room at the inn?

And lo, the rentier repled, No but there’s a room on my yacht…

if you work for Miramax, bitch!

~ Harry R. Sohl

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