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If you’re getting tired of the overbearing drumcirclers of the Occupy movement nothing brings you back around to their point of view quite like a steaming pile of one percenter consumerism. It serves as a reminder that, nope, not everyone is in this together. Some people are doing just fine. Finer, even. It’s time for another “December to Remember Sales Event” from Lexus.

This month’s festival of excess comes courtesy of the 2011 Lexus marketing campaign, running ad nauseum, which suggests the only way to create a “December to Remember” is to play the Lexus theme song and tie a bow around a 60,000 dollar hybrid SUV that you’re giving to somebody for Christmas. I know you’ve seen these miserable things. They amount to either a terrible miscalculation about what Americans want shot out of their TVs at their faces or a sort of cocky, “deal with it” from Lexus about how shitty our lives are.

I understand that Lexus is a manufacturer of luxury automobiles and I don’t begrudge them that. Certain people just need fancier cars to go to their fancy places fancier. If the commies had won the Cold War we’d all be waiting to get our chance for an unpainted Lada made out of tin with features like “front and one side window,” “power headlight” and “full floor.” At least this way a few hours of busking outside the train station and you can buy enough gasoline to drive your heated ‘89 Tercel to a different train station to busk, all so you can save up money to buy a Chinese hunk of crap and a couple video games about murdering robots for your ungrateful kids.

Merry Christmas, everybody.