Trying hard not to dismiss this as just a buncha cold spirit-sucking empty-hearted teeny-bop cunts at the mean girls table.
Politics-as-usual?
Or maybe massive unresolved daddy issues? That could easily be the case with Meghan McCain I guess.
When you slag a guy for tearing up a little while he's trying to get us to do something about too many dead kids - when you feel the need to stonewall against any effort to keep kids from being killed - you have no soul and no honor.
And it's not just because you have no soul and no honor. As it turns out, it's also because the boss can't afford anything to be done about the problem. And that's what I think is driving such cunt-ish behavior on air.
If you wanna know what's up with any problem here in USAmerica Inc, you have to look at who's currently benefiting from the problem, and/or who stands to profit from any proposed solution for that problem.
And more importantly, since we're talkin' politics now, you have to understand that solutions for these problems are not actually allowed - REPEATING: solutions are not allowed. There's too much money and too many careers of too many very powerful people at stake.
It doesn't matter what we're scrappin' about - it can be Abortion or Guns or Taxes or Poverty or Schools or Prisons or any other 'problem'. As long as we're fighting, we're fueling the revenue streams that keep the fat cats fat.
The people who're making the decisions on what we see and hear over the air or on cable; what we read online; what emails we receive asking for another 3 bucks to help in the fight for blah blah blah - these are either currently wealthy powerful people, or they're people looking to become wealthy and powerful by monetizing the fight for whatever.
Mike's First Law of Career Self-Nurturing: Anybody with any prospect of enjoying even a relatively low degree of success will never ever EVER try to work himself out of that job.
We have a News Industry that went from Public Service to Cost Center to Profit Center to Money Mill - there is no content available on Fox or MSNBC or WashPo or your local FARMNet station that isn't programmed to push somebody's buttons and move them to send a generous donation to their newfound favorite cause.
Seems like the only thing we manufacture in this country anymore is this bullshit high-school-fuck-around drama. But hey - business is booming, so it's all good.
Because there's no contradiction in having a hard head and a soft heart.
I'm not a fan - Obama's done some things I strongly oppose, and he's left some things undone I wish he'd tried a lot harder to get done. But that's just how this shit works. And the guy's still pretty fuckin' amazing.
"... we're not about fear; we're not about force; we're not about intimidation ..."
That's why your action is considered an "armed occupation of federal property"? Andyou brought all the guns because you have no intention of threatening violence or making a show of force?
OK.
BTW - Messianic much, Mr Bundy?
Here's the thing, schmuck - maybe you and the Goober Squad could just go the fuck home and let the good folks in Harney County decide what's best for the good folks in Harney County. Could we try that?
In WWI, civilian casualties accounted for about 10% of the total. By the time we got around to invading Iraq almost 100 years later, that number had climbed to 90%. It's pretty simple really. First, it's a transaction - there's lotsa people, so we can spend them - the cost of war. Second, in spite of our efforts to impose "Rules Of War", WWII made it very clear that nothing much had actually changed at all. Counter Force = kill their soldiers; destroy their weapons and equipment Counter Value = destroy roads and bridges and factories and farms Counter Collateral = kill their people - the ones who become the soldiers, build the roads and grow the food. Whoever loses the least gets to call themselves the winners, and put the other guys on trial for "war crimes". All of that gets real clear about 42 minutes into this film:
"Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less."
I'm not looking forward to having to vote for Hillary. I'm down with Bernie and I'll stay with him for as long as I can, but if / when the time comes, I'm not gonna behave like some crackpot wingnut. We get plenty of that nonsense from the GOP. This is not the movies; we don't always get everything we want; sometimes we have to go with the least bad option; etc etc etc And please don't give me the crap about "having to choose between the lesser of two evils". When faced with that choice, isn't it really kind of an imperative to make every effort to support the lesser of the two evils in an attempt to keep the greater of those two evils out of power? Or are you just too fucking stoopid to grasp the basic concept of Greater vs Lesser? I very much want Bernie to win it all. But what I think is actually more important than that is to make sure the Repubs don't win much of anything. So anyway, Hillary did a townhall thing - always a risk - and of course she got a troll in the audience who stood and heckled her for something, and she nailed the reply:
“You are very rude and I’m not never ever going to call on you. Thank you.”
And in response to the inevitable "what about Bill" question:
"He's not running for President, I am. And as his wife I've moved on; shouldn't you?"
She'll hit back; she's starting to get that part of her playbook in place. And she deserves props for that.
