Dogs Catching Cars

For decades, Republicans have been running election campaigns on total horseshit.

Everything from:

"here comes the rapture" and "Jesus hates fags"

- to -

"banning books isn't really censorship" and "if it's a legitimate rape ..."

- to -

"taxation is theft" and "no, actually, you don't have any rights unless we say you do - except for that 2nd amendment thing".

It goes on and on, but you get the idea. And it never stops.

They ran against government dysfunction that was either make-believe or of their own making, and now that they've succeeded in making it dysfunctional in real-life - the freaking out is what's really real.

They've been running on Chaos At The Border. But when they got practically everything they said they wanted, Trump jumped in and scrubbed the whole thing, giving away the game - again. ie: He wants the issue, not the solution.

They ran against Roe v Wade for 40 years, and then they finally got it. Now the normies and the yacht buyers are freaking out because they're staring at a major Blue backlash that could easily mean they're about to lose their sweetheart contracting deals, and their monster tax cuts that finance all the high roller lifestyle goodies they've been enjoying at the expense of real people.

The Country Club faction was happy to let them fuck around with all of that, because the conspiracy fantasies kept the rubes turning out to vote, and that kept their guys in power, which meant they didn't have to worry much about the crazies actually getting any of that shit done.

Oops. Careful what you wish for - things change.

And all of this is just too fucking obvious, but I needed to write it down. Thanks for listening.

Overheard

@Ir8te33

I'll tell you a little secret. I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country - it's a non-issue. The overwhelming majority of them are normal people trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. And without Social Security Numbers, they're not getting the welfare help people claim they're getting.

This whole Build-A-Wall-And-Deport-The-Illegals bullshit is just the One Percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor (and getting poorer), instead of realizing they're poor due to a vast artificial gulf of Income Inequality, together with Resource Price Inflation and Wage Stagnation, and outright Benefit Theft.

The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor.

You're poor because the people who control everything refuse to treat you better.

Today's Tweet

It's more than just possible that both this asshole and our current POTUS could be the results of Wingnut Hate Media.

Homeboy Aaron Schlossberg just ruined his whole life because he couldn’t keep his racist mouth shut.

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— Zach Moody (@zach_pilot) May 16, 2018

 

That kind of rant is not something that just springs into being from that guy's own internal dialogue - it's not organic.

It's a product of training.

Today's Best Rant

Reprinted here in its original form:

JESUS CHRIST THE SYRIAN REFUGEES AREN'T COMING TO WHATEVER GLORIFIED TRAILER PARK / FEMA CAMP / OPEN AIR METH LAB OR DYSTOPIAN INNER RING TRACT HOUSING AND STRIP MALL FART-FUCK OF A SUBURB YOU CALL HOME, THEY WOULD TAKE ONE LOOK AT YOUR SAD EXCUSE FOR A LIFE AND THINK "I'LL GO BACK AND TAKE MY CHANCES, DID YOU SEE THAT WOMAN WITH THE 'BAD BITCH' TATTOO HER TORSO LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE WAS BAKING BREAD IN A HALTER TOP." THE FACT THAT YOU GOT A SECOND HARDEES (NEXT TO THE PELLAGRA CLINIC) DOES NOT MAKE PIGSKNUCKLE COUNTY AN APPEALING TERRORIST TARGET, IF ISIS ATTACKS THEY WILL ATTACK A CITY BECAUSE CITIES HAVE LANDMARKS AND PEOPLE WHO WALK PLACES. WHY WOULD ANYONE EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO KILL YOU WHEN THEY COULD SIT BACK AND LET CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE DO THE JOB, BE SURE TO BUY MORE GUNS THOUGH THEY'RE REALLY KEEPING YOUR VINYL SIDED RANCH HOUSE SAFE. YES THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT TO GET YOU BUT THEY'RE NOT CALLED "ISIS" THEY'RE CALLED THE COLLECTION AGENCY AND YOUR GUNS WILL ONLY IMPRESS THEM TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY WILL FETCH SOMETHING AT AUCTION WHEN YOUR PROPERTY IS SEIZED TO PAY THE MEDICAL BILLS FOR YOUR LAST SIX ANGIOPLASTIES BUT YOU REALLY SHOWED OBUMMER BY NOT SIGNING UP FOR INSURANCE YOU DANIEL FUCKIN' BOONE RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST YOU.

hat tips = bluegal and Crooks & Liars