I'm in.
Feb 23, 2016
Pay It Heed, Dummy
And remember that while the Dems have been pretty much too quiet and too absent for too fucking long, the GOP is nothing but Guns-Everywhere-Kill-'Em-All-Let-God-Sort-It-Out.
You don't like it? Get up on your hind legs and do something about it.
Looking Forward
With the latest crap coming out of the Oddly-Tinted Pile Of Psychotic Symptoms (aka: The Great Trumpkin Himself), here's the one question I really want the Press Poodles to ask every candidate, but especially every GOP candidate, and especially especially Lil Donny:
"What behavior will you expect from your loyalest supporters if you lose the primary; and/or you go on to lose the general election?"
And just to be sure - please look straight into the camera and tell your voters you want them to be civilized Americans who understand that politics in this country is about argument, voting and then abiding by the results of that voting without violent protests.
Take it to the streets, and do a sit-down thing, and go on strike, and do whatever you think will get your grievances heard and addressed, but this is not where the mob rules.
Well, OK - except for that "Recent Unpleasantness" back when the Yankees invaded our homeland.
But yeah - Exceptionalism, motherfucker. Do you get it?
"What behavior will you expect from your loyalest supporters if you lose the primary; and/or you go on to lose the general election?"
And just to be sure - please look straight into the camera and tell your voters you want them to be civilized Americans who understand that politics in this country is about argument, voting and then abiding by the results of that voting without violent protests.
Take it to the streets, and do a sit-down thing, and go on strike, and do whatever you think will get your grievances heard and addressed, but this is not where the mob rules.
Well, OK - except for that "Recent Unpleasantness" back when the Yankees invaded our homeland.
But yeah - Exceptionalism, motherfucker. Do you get it?
Feb 21, 2016
Today's Tweet
I am seriously considering making this my avatar on every site across the entire web. It's just that fucking awesome.
— perfectly frank (@AmOhSoFrank) February 21, 2016
And There It Is
MoJo:
Now they can round it all out with that little extra self-delusion of Post-Racial Bigotry dressed up to look like the same old "return to American values", which btw has been re-rebranded as "Making America Great Again".
Really gotta wonder how the rubes just go along with it - until you stop and consider they've been going along with it for 400 years now - and that's just on this continent.
Trump didn't win in spite of being a boor, a bigot, and an analog internet troll; he won because he was proudly all those things. For all the diversions (who picks a fight with the pope, anyway?), he articulated a remarkably clear theory of politics: Other people are screwing you over, and I'm going to stop it.In the 80s and through the 90s, it was Repubs making big strides by embracing the criticism of them for being Cold Greedy Self-Centered Assholes - saying straight up, "Why yes - yes I am. And proud of it too."
Now they can round it all out with that little extra self-delusion of Post-Racial Bigotry dressed up to look like the same old "return to American values", which btw has been re-rebranded as "Making America Great Again".
Really gotta wonder how the rubes just go along with it - until you stop and consider they've been going along with it for 400 years now - and that's just on this continent.
Down To Five
And Governor Dumpster Fire bites the dust, proving once again that as a political prognosticator, I make a pretty good floor wax.
With that in mind, I might as well let my freak flag fly:
Maybe I'm just die-hard and stubborn, but I can't stop thinking this isn't the end of it. With very small (and fading fast) hopes that Trump won't get the nomination, and knowing pretty well what a monumental cluster fuck is brewing if he does, the GOP has to be scrambling behind the scenes to bring in a ringer.
And there seems to be way too many giddy Dems wandering around thinking the dissolution of the GOP isn't at least potentially a catastrophic systems-level failure. With so many Repubs in charge of state and local governments, a thorough fracturing and break up of an entire political party could easily spell even bigger trouble for our little experiment in self-government. We ain't seen nothin' yet, kids.
Feb 20, 2016
Today's Quote
Here's a golden oldie.
Powell gave up his credibility when Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld played him for a sucker and talked him into doing that extraordinarily stoopid dog-n-pony show at the UN as we were being pimped into the Iraq war.
But he did the right thing afterwards and just faded away, which restores at least a bit of his honor in my opinion. And I think part of that restoration shows in his willingness to stand up and call out the bullshit in the GOP when he sees it.
Powell gave up his credibility when Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld played him for a sucker and talked him into doing that extraordinarily stoopid dog-n-pony show at the UN as we were being pimped into the Iraq war.
But he did the right thing afterwards and just faded away, which restores at least a bit of his honor in my opinion. And I think part of that restoration shows in his willingness to stand up and call out the bullshit in the GOP when he sees it.
Feb 18, 2016
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