Thursday, February 25, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Oh Those Obamas
I'm running dangerously close to the edge of a warm fuzzy feeling for POTUS and FLOTUS.
.@POTUS nominates the first woman and first African-American to be Librarian of Congress: https://t.co/5zQhYVj74jhttps://t.co/vkWq9IfqcU— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 24, 2016
Today marks the launch of @OpenEBks, bringing access to free books for students across the country. #ReachHigherhttps://t.co/1fRsZ9tFXv— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) February 24, 2016
Book-learnin', bitches. Git some.
Today's Quote
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles. Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular?
But, conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” -- Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Today's Tweet
The last GOP "debate" was almost universally characterized as a train wreck, so I guess Las Vegas just couldn't stand to be outdone in the Nevada Caucus thingie so...yeah.
EXCLUSIVE: This is the scene of the Nevada GOP caucus. pic.twitter.com/ZNwB8Ns8im— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod2016) February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 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?
Sunday, February 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.
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