Category Archives: The Hardcore Stupid

How the Venezuelan opposition “celebrated” May Day

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Or, Yon-Yon’s mustard gaffe:A couple of clips from La Hojilla (The Razorblade), showing what none of the opposition media want you to see about the kind of people THEY represent. Namely, that they are delusional, violent and even downright stupid … Continue reading →

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Let’s get a few things straight here…

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Oh noes! I’ve been accused of being wrong about something going down in Bolivia, it seems. The accuser gives the e-mail address “bolivia@gmail.com”, but a quickie check of his/her IP address (which gets conveniently left in my mailbox, along with … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Matt Taibbi on the US peasant mentality

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale … Continue reading →

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A few random thoughts on beauty queens

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Remember this?Sadly, it’s more representative than exceptional. I shit thee not.Oh come on, admit it. You know it as well as I do, gentle reader: Beauty queens are twits. It goes with the territory. They don’t need no stinkin’ depth; … Continue reading →

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UN agrees: Porvenir WAS a massacre.

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Sabina Becker

(Shamelessly stolen from El Ventarrón. It was too good to pass up!)A certain prefect from a certain Bolivian department is in the calabozo right now. Some kooky people in Miami (where else?) say he’s an unjustly incarcerated “political prisoner”. Well, … Continue reading →

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Antifascist beatdown? You got it!

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Yes, we have racism too up here…but we have a lot more anti-racists to beat back against it. Get a load of this: Violence erupted Saturday afternoon as about 30 members of a white supremacist group and hundreds of anti-racism … Continue reading →

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Trash this spam if you get it

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This kind of Spam is popular in Hawaii, where a certain recently inaugurated president was born…On the other hand, this spam, sent to me by a friend who watches these things, is one you’d best throw out, lest it poison … Continue reading →

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Men Who Just Don’t Get It: The Preacher Man from Down Under

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

I feel for Australia right now. Not only do they have dozens of bushfires and nearly 200 gruesome deaths to deal with, they also have fundamentalist fools who insist on twisting the tragedy to their own ends. Case in point: … Continue reading →

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The best the Venezuelan opposition can do

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…is pretty much summed up by this video:They can’t answer even a basic question. So they stick to their painfully thin script: “No is No!” And other hysterical yelling.Of course, if they chose to answer questions rationally, they’d have to … Continue reading →

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BoingBoing gets rolled by Venezuelan oppo; ‘Bina rolls back

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Look what happens when you take a deliberate misinterpretation of a local event seriously. You get poopy-doo everywhere! Guido David Núñez-Mujica tells Boing Boing, On Saturday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez decreed that February the 2nd, the anniversary of his ascent … Continue reading →