Thoughtless for the Day

Dear Mexican brothers and sisters:

I call you "brothers and sisters" because we have such in common. For example we both know what it's like to live in an impoverished country that has a huge gap between its wealthiest and the poorest citizens, and is overflowing with Mexicans. We now have one more thing in common: stolen Presidential elections.

How do I know that the Mexican Presidential elections were stolen? The same way that I know that the American Presidential elections were stolen (twice): some guy over at Counter Punch says so. I believe pretty much everything I read on Counter Punch... unless, of course, something I read on Reason contradicts it, then I just flip a coin.

So, if your Presidential elections were even half as crooked as that guy over at Counter Punch (or five of the six guests on yesterday's edition of Democracy Now!) claims, you should take this opportunity to stand together and let your dissatisfaction be seen: by which I mean "Fuck shit up."

Americans used to be world's leaders in expressing our frustrations with unjust socio-economic conditions by fucking shit up; starting with the Boston Tea Party and ending sometime after the Rodney King riots. Now put down that burrito and pay attention because here's the lesson that I'm trying to impart: The day (and please keep in mind that I'm drunk right now) that Americans decided that it was no longer worth fucking shit up was the day that this country started going to Hell. After not one single American expressed their dismay with the 2000 Presidential elections by fucking shit up, the Powers-That-Be knew that they could get away with anything and we'd just bend over and take it in the ass like Rick Santorum at the Westminster Dog Show. Sweet Mexican Jesus Healing a Broken Piñata, they rigged two Presidential elections, Pre-War Intellegence, and American Idol and we just sat there with dopey smiles on our faces, shrugged and said "Well, what are ya' gonna do?" Well, I know what the citizens of Mexico are gonna do: they're gonna fuck shit up, because we keep being told that there are some jobs that Americans won't do, and one of those jobs must obviously be finding shit and fucking it up.

Well, if Mexicans can fuck shit up cheaper and more effectively than Americans, I say more power to 'em. Citizens of Mexico, rise up and smash your oppressors! You have nothing less valuable than your freedom to gain and nothing more valuable than... I dunno; whatever the fuck comes from Mexico to lose!