May 24, 2019
May 23, 2019
A Shortage Of Fingers
The damn done sprung a right good many leaks.
45*'s little tantrum yesterday - "I won't do any work if you don't stop bothering me about that other stuff" - is very dim echo of his attempts to hold us all hostage (gov't shutdown) as he tried to force us into funding that stoopid wall.
He looked for something most of us want the feds to do, and decided to use it as leverage.
1) He had no intention of pushing for anything like major infrastructure projects.
2) He's showing himself to be clumsy as fuck in everything he does now - it's obvious there's no one left in the west wing to provide any kind of guidance. He just comes up with something weird, and yells about it until somebody responds positively and helps him expand on it and rationalize whatever knuckleheaded "plan" they put together on the spot.
It all started to go to go in the crapper when we decided the presidency should be demystified - that all we needed was a guy with an affinity for regular people and a little common sense.
Bullshit
I don't want a guy who's "just folks" - a guy I'd like to have a beer with - a simple guy who knows how to catch a fish and fix a leaky faucet in the kitchen.
We need that guy for a neighbor, but we can't keep thinking we should put that guy in the oval office.
We have to have an exceptional guy - an exceptional woman - somebody who knows how to hang with ordinary people certainly, but they also have to know their way around a major international confrontation that might involve nuclear fucking weapons.
Republicans keep giving us guys who shouldn't be in charge of renting paddle boats at City Park in Buttcrack Florida. What the fuck are we doing?
GoT Breakdown
YouTuber Eric Voss - New Rockstars
"Breaking the wheel" is a notion that carries an appeal that's almost universally popular - thus its political enshrinement as Populism - but in the end, it's almost as universally false.
Revolutionaries ride in promising some variation on "peace bread freedom and justice", but they deliver struggle and pain and sorrow and privation.
For as long as there's been any kind of political structure, people have been out to conquer the world. The world is bruised and bloodied, but it remains undefeated.
When will we ever learn?
"Breaking the wheel" is a notion that carries an appeal that's almost universally popular - thus its political enshrinement as Populism - but in the end, it's almost as universally false.
Revolutionaries ride in promising some variation on "peace bread freedom and justice", but they deliver struggle and pain and sorrow and privation.
For as long as there's been any kind of political structure, people have been out to conquer the world. The world is bruised and bloodied, but it remains undefeated.
When will we ever learn?
May 22, 2019
Persuasion
"Once you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." --Teddy Roosevelt(?)
(as made famous by Dick Nixon's Chief Counsel Chuck Colson)
(as made famous by Dick Nixon's Chief Counsel Chuck Colson)
And btw, just cuz it's a natural thing don't make it a good thing for humans.
Today's Tweet
First, "NutMeg McCain" is the best nickname since I dunno when. It sounds like it's straight out of the old west - like a legendary madam in one of the mining camps or something.
Anyway, there's no one on TV who does the poor-poor-pitiful-me bullshit better.
NutMeg McCain has another temper tantrum when she uses Trump's rally numbers to prove how popular he is in a small Pennsylvania town and Sunny points out -- people had to drive there. pic.twitter.com/FgVXQTyM8n— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 21, 2019
Katie Porter
First - it's not fuckin' funny.
My default position is that if it was any less tragic, it wouldn't be funny, but there's something at work here that indicates we've reached a new level.
There's something in Carson's "performance" that tells me Cult45 not only has no respect for the concept of 3 co-equal branches of government, they hold a deep and abiding contempt for it - as well as for all of us who understand the need for Checks and Balances.
It's an illness - the need to spare no effort when trying "own the Libs" - this absolute imperative that says you have to hack off your own foot if "the other side" so much as hints at being in favor of toes.
Second, when Carson tries to crack wise with the Oreo bullshit, he's not just sneering at us. He's not just mocking Porter's intellect - btw, how totally ridiculous is it that an actual brain surgeon sits there basically slagging someone for being nerdily smart? - but he's telegraphing his ignorance of his own cultural roots from the 70s. If ever there was a black guy in USAmerica Inc who qualifies as an "Oreo", its Ben Carson - and it's like he has no fucking clue what it even means.
More than ever, I'm convinced there are people working diligently to kill this form of government.
These are not patriots looking to serve - they're Daddy State assholes who intend to rule.
My default position is that if it was any less tragic, it wouldn't be funny, but there's something at work here that indicates we've reached a new level.
There's something in Carson's "performance" that tells me Cult45 not only has no respect for the concept of 3 co-equal branches of government, they hold a deep and abiding contempt for it - as well as for all of us who understand the need for Checks and Balances.
It's an illness - the need to spare no effort when trying "own the Libs" - this absolute imperative that says you have to hack off your own foot if "the other side" so much as hints at being in favor of toes.
Second, when Carson tries to crack wise with the Oreo bullshit, he's not just sneering at us. He's not just mocking Porter's intellect - btw, how totally ridiculous is it that an actual brain surgeon sits there basically slagging someone for being nerdily smart? - but he's telegraphing his ignorance of his own cultural roots from the 70s. If ever there was a black guy in USAmerica Inc who qualifies as an "Oreo", its Ben Carson - and it's like he has no fucking clue what it even means.
More than ever, I'm convinced there are people working diligently to kill this form of government.
These are not patriots looking to serve - they're Daddy State assholes who intend to rule.
May 21, 2019
Today's Tweet
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through
And now for some good news. pic.twitter.com/PRq8pTMk4U— #Bernie2020 ⌛️🌹🌻 (@WhiskersCrowley) May 19, 2019
Betsy DeVos is a pimp for the Rent-Seekers. She cares nothing for education except as a profit-making venture, and so she wants nothing more than to keep those kids under the thumbs of bankers and bosses and credit hounds for the rest of their lives.
So I guess I don't quite understand what it is the administration at Bethune-Cookman were expecting.
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