MSNBC’s Krystal Ball today doubled down on a previous claim she made that George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm,” when applied to the modern world, is actually an indictment of capitalism.
That gem of a spin sparked an idea:
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/463775617901924352
The #KrystalBallBookClub membership almost instantly started growing and offering hilarious Krystal Ball-style reviews of other classics:
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/463776048627593217
https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/463776521799204864
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https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/463777235624022016
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#KrystalBallBookClub
The book of Jonah: A groundbreaking treatise on alternative, environmentally friendly forms of maritime transportation.— David Freddoso (@freddoso) May 6, 2014
#krystalballbookclub RT @RyanLGustafson: @freddoso Plato's Apology: A stirring indictment of our poor treatment of the elderly.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) May 6, 2014
@freddoso Wealth of Nations: How the invisible hand of government guides resources to their most productive and efficient uses
— Beirut By The Lake (@beirutbythelake) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "The Bonfire of the Vanities" is the story of an evil New York financier saved by a black preacher-turned-MSNBC host.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 6, 2014
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Undaunted Courage: A Story of Big Government conquering the frontier. #KrystalBallBookClub
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 6, 2014
Recommended
https://twitter.com/Bilford_Wrimley/status/463787355086667776
"The Gulag Archipelago": A clarion call for Communism through examples of the best of the Soviet experience. #KrystalBallBookClub
— blighter (@blightersort) May 6, 2014
"Brave New World" A cautionary tale about how a single tea party-type can disrupt the progressive Utopia. #KrystalBallBookClub
— ErinG (@MechEngnr) May 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/MyFavoriteKick/status/463787778812022784
https://twitter.com/Closetrighty/status/463788239191433216
"The Road to Serfdom": Quick read highlighting economic efficiencies made possible by mass centralization.#KrystalBallBookClub
— blighter (@blightersort) May 6, 2014
Friedman's "Capitalism & Freedom": Chilling text laying out dystopic horrors in wake of decimated government.#KrystalBallBookClub
— blighter (@blightersort) May 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/Lars_Thorwald/status/463789092199612416
https://twitter.com/Closetrighty/status/463790142960844801
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'Gates of Fire': King Leonidas uses diplomacy & 'leading from behind' to persuade Xerxes to go back to Persia #KrystalBallbookclub
— Marshall Power Locke (@MarshallLocke) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "The Metamorphosis" is Kafka's cautionary tale about the loss of biodiversity.
— TinyShortBunkerInspectionHat (@Popehat) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "100 Years of Solitude" explores the horrors of rainforest depletion.
— TinyShortBunkerInspectionHat (@Popehat) May 6, 2014
Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics, by Margaret Sanger. A "lean-in" book of empowerment for women. #KrystalBallBookClub
— Lloyd Christmis ?? #MAGA (@LloydChristmis) May 6, 2014
LOL RT @joe46and2 @freddoso #krystalballbookclub Fahrenheit 451: A devastating look at Republican efforts to gut first responder's pensions.
— Patriarchy Griffin (@OU_Gryphon) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub See Spot Run: a vindictive story of animal torture for human entertainment.
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) May 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/Closetrighty/status/463794847199936513
#KrystalBallBookClub The Tempest: A mean lonely wizard creates storms to torment ugly people.
— David Morgan (@StarCoreOne02) May 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/463794959473057795
Hamlet: a spoiled Danish prince attempts to deprive Claudius and Gertrude of their marriage equality #KrystalBallBookClub
— Kevin Eric Snell ☹ (@KevEnoch) May 6, 2014
"The Old Man and the Sea": Hemingway's cautionary tale about the dangers of overfishing #KrystalBallBookClub
— Wesley Morrison (@weswrit) May 6, 2014
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'Goodnight Moon' A chilling expose of the right-wing plot to blow up the moon #KrystalBallBookClub
— Diet Publicola (@DietPublicola) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub “Democracy In America” Alexis de Tocqueville gets everything wrong.
— Allan (@UnrealAllan) May 6, 2014
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"The Five People You Meet in Heaven": Mitch Albom's heartwarming tales of the MSNBC green room. #KrystalBallBookClub
— Wesley Morrison (@weswrit) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "1984" is the tragic tale of a newspaper editor who gets in trouble with his big brother. #tcot
— clayjohanson (@clayjohanson) May 6, 2014
@Red__Rover #KrystalBallBookClub "Old Yeller" A boy puts down his dog after drug companies refuse to find a cure.
— DC Homebody (@LiamInDC) May 6, 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, an account of a battlefield tourist unfairly locked up in Gitmo #KrystalBallBookClub
— Kim Jong-unthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 6, 2014
@Popehat Profiles in Courage: JFK's classic on Senators having the courage to vote in lockstep with their party #KrystalBallBookClub
— TNCannuck (@TNCannuck) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub Where the Wild Things Are: Chronicles a capitialist that comes in and dominates the free people of a peaceloving island
— Michael Nagy (@thenagman) May 6, 2014
@JonahNRO The Hunt for Red October: One Lithuanian's attempt to find meaning in the October Revolution. #KrystalBallBookClub
— TNCannuck (@TNCannuck) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "War and Peace" chronicles the difficult transition from the Bush to Obama administrations.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 6, 2014
"Leviathan" is Thomas Hobbes' magnum opus describing the intricacies of the vast right-wing conspiracy. #KrystalBallBookClub
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" How one man set out to destroy our climate.
— Roland le Fartere (@Crapplefratz) May 6, 2014
Hop on Pop: Giesel's practical guide to piggy-backing on your parents' insurance until you're practically middle-aged. #KrystalBallBookClub
— Keep on keepin' yer distance. (@prosehaikus) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • Undocumented worker's harrowing journey to the USA, also, fish
— Diet Publicola (@DietPublicola) May 6, 2014
"The Hobbit": Tolkein's timeless classic of how ignorant Tea Partiers from flyover shires should just stay at home #KrystalBallBookClub
— Wesley Morrison (@weswrit) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub "Where the Wild Things Are." A tale about the plight of a child who ignores Michelle Obama's nutritional guidelines
— Sir Loin of Beef (@SarcaSticous) May 6, 2014
"Jurassic Park": Michael Crichton's best-selling expose of how the GOP lost the youth vote. #KrystalBallBookClub
— Wesley Morrison (@weswrit) May 6, 2014
#KrystalBallBookClub Moby Dick – Story of an anti-commercial fishing activist and his bonding with a big fish
— daijimsee (@daijimsee) May 6, 2014
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The Hunt for Red October. The story of America's imperialistic military attacking a peace loving Russian sub captain #KrystalBallBookClub
— Dillon (@000Dillon000) May 6, 2014
And, just to bring this thing full circle:
Animal Farm, a story about… Oh right, that's the one that started all this… #KrystalBallBookClub
— (((Aaron “Worthing” Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) May 6, 2014
Ha!
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