"Kantmiss Evershot plays in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle!"
Posted on 11/22/2013 2:09:08 PM PST by mdittmar
"The Hunger Games" are real. If you're familiar with the books and movies, or have at least heard of the "Hunger Games" phenomenon, you're probably aware that the series tackles some pretty serious issues of poverty and economic inequality that hit way too close to home. If you're not, here's some background.
"The Hunger Games" takes place in the fictional world of Panem, which is a dystopian North America sometime in the far off future. All the wealth in the country is concentrated in the Capitol and people in the 12 districts are constantly in fear of starvation. Everything the people in the districts produce, whether it is coal, grain, machinery or clothing, is controlled by the Capitol. People are forbidden to hunt or grow their own food, thus relying on the Capitol's meager grain and oil rations.
(Excerpt) Read more at aflcio.org ...
yes but we will have to deal with them because the obamacrats are focusing them to look at us as their enemy.
can’t be helped if the propaganda from the left overwhelms what we can do.
Once upon a time, the AFL had the good sense to run commies out of their ranks.
Like everything else in ObamaCare...its a cruel joke...
Nurse will see you now...
I read here on FR where ex govt employees are getting rich by winning govt contracts as consultants in Washington DC or with private companies. Out here in the hinterlands consider yourself lucky if you have any job. I see it only getting worse.
Bless you ... my wife says she saw her on some chick show and she was really funny.
Great sense of humor, yeah that’s the ticket!
The top 1 percent of American households had pretax income above $394,000 last year. The total compensation of Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, is $406,817.00.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
So much money to be had if you know where to look. The avalanche of cash that made Washington rich in the last decade has transformed the culture of a once staid capital and created a new wave of well-heeled insiders.If Jackie Tortora is concerned about the real Hunger Games she should tell the union bosses to cut their salaries and call for the federal government to shrink back to its Constitutional limits.The winners in the new Washington are not just the former senators, party consiglieri and four-star generals who have always profited from their connections. Now they are also the former bureaucrats, accountants and staff officers for whom unimagined riches are suddenly possible. They are the entrepreneurs attracted to the capital by its aura of prosperity and its super-educated workforce. They are the lawyers, lobbyists and executives who work for companies that barely had a presence in Washington before the boom.
During the past decade, the region added 21,000 households in the nation's top 1 percent. No other metro area came close.
Unions that force the taxpayers to fund their salaries, bennies, and retirement are no less the entitled they complain about.
Furthermore, the dreaded dystopia is the epitome of Socialism, Marxism, Communism the unions support.
Unions want their liberty too. Imagine that.
Hmmm. Sounds like the unions who want to forbid anyone working who is not a member.
“sounds like the Obama administration”
Yes, it does. The parallels are actually quite close with an authoritarian President in DC (District 1)who is subject to no laws, and with people in the other districts having lost their individual liberty nearly completely.
I’m actually surprised the unions want to discuss this movie at all. It’s certainly not a movie that endorses joining a union. Instead, it’s a movie (3 movies really, to parallel the 3 books in the series) that strongly endorses throwing over the powers that be and re-establishing individual liberties.
What I find interesting is that practically every kid in the country between the age of 14 and 21 has read the entire series. It’s been extremely popular and the first movie was very well done, with critics strongly endorsing the second movie now coming out. (Catching Fire)
It’s the second book (and movie) that moves into the authoritarian/liberty conflict directly so it will be interesting to see how this movie affects young people who are now being pilloried with Obamacare.
For some time now, I’ve wondered if the Hunger Games books and movies would have a similar effect on young minds that Orwell’s “1984” did when it was published in 1948. The difference, and it’s a huge one, is that virtually everyone under 22 or so is going to be familiar with Hunger Games today.
I’ve also thought for some time that a candidate for a GOP office should be able to use Hunger Games analogies to make serious inroads into the youth vote, but we’ll have to wait and see on that one. So far, I’ve detected no such effort, but I’m really, really surprised the union wants anything to do with it.
Perhaps it’s an effort to throw Republicans off the trail? If so, we shouldn’t bite. Hunger Games is made to order for the GOP and its message of individual liberty and decentralization of control. Someone with the resources of the Koch brothers should look at the potential for knock-off commercials using scenes from the movies. They could really get the attention of younger voters if done well.
“The middle class is the biggest enemy of liberal Utopian schemes to concentrate ever greater political power in ever fewer hands.”
Absolutely. Your statement is spot on. It’s hard to convey to people how terrified the elitists are of an armed and self-sufficient middle class. I believe that these fascists fear that more than the world’s banks collapsing or the Muslim jihadists taking over Europe. The armed middle class of America represents the biggest barrier to the fascists’ plans to establish their one world order. It’s imperative that every patriot be armed and muster with like-minded people.
Accurate, as long as you take into account that the Roman circus was a chariot race, the most popular form of entertainment at the time, not what we think of for the term.
PS She must scrape off all that make-up and eat it,
and it makes her pretty on the inside too. D-ohhh!
This sort of thing has happened before. It can happen again. It can happen here.
Those who do not heed the warning are fools.
Note tagline.
No idea why she sticks with bottle blonde. She is such a beautiful brunette.
“The Hunger Games trilogy is a warning.”
No, it’s fiction. The factual and recorded warning is what happened to the British elitists in our Revolutionary War. The most recent warning to the elitists is what transpired with Kaddhafi during the 2011 Libyan civil war. Kaddhafi was the elitist caretaker for that part of the world. He and his elitist goons, including the elitist’s mercenary African army, ended up hanging from lampposts or shot dead in town squares by armed provincial militias. What happened in Libya has terrified elitists around the world. It showed they’re not in control and Kaddhafi’s fate - shot dead on the hood of an SUV with his gold-plated glock - waits for them.
If Obama was standing behind me with both hands on my shoulders, I’d be very nervous.
Urk....well on her way to celluloid.
No, but the punk behind him giving a Palm Springs prostate exam looks HIV-positive.
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