|
... by the Bushies crew of serial liars every single time, no matter their alleged expertise on the subject?
(Boy... this got long, as I just realized while running the spel chekkur. So it may be endless, but at least it's incoherent too. As our story begins...)
This time it's Rubin, but these dems seem to have all caught the deadly dunce germ and sooner or later it's going to be their turn to put on the pointy dunce cap and cop to being the witless dupes and rubes and hicks that they seem to be. But they're innocent, of course, their intentions were the very best. But like his previous victims, they've succumbed to the rhetorical brilliance and undeniable charm of The Commander Guy...
Well, gee... That takes care of everything. OK. Far be it from me to expect political leaders to have, at the very least, the brains, sense and analytical functions given to the slowest, dumbest tree sloth in the rain forest.
Consider this idiocy from a former presidential candidate, likely secretary of state and apparent gullible nitwit -- a terrific quality in somebody who's supposed to go one-on-one with the world's savviest, sharpest and most devious con men. Just the woman for the job, eh?
So Ms. Clinton said she was fooled into voting for the IWR, officially known as the Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, because she was assured by various administration shills that they were just kidding when they named it, that it didn't actually mean what the title says it means and that she wasn't really voting to authorize the use of US armed forces against Iraq. Well hell... That's credible. I'd probably do the same.
John Kerry said he was also fooled by the same group of chronic liars, although he later squirmed his way out of it and publicly recanted. But John my boy, was your cognition on vacation when they first conned you into being another one of their personal bitches?
But the bigger issue: what does it say about all these presumably sophisticated, accomplished people who claim they keep getting snookered by the stupidest man ever to occupy the White House? Who could possibly swallow such lying nonsense? And if they're not lying, why would anyone ever vote for such obvious fools who can't be trusted to separate facts from horseshit?
Here we are, amateurs and observers with a lot of experience, smarts, research skills and common sense but no access to classified info. Still, I can't remember anybody cheerleading for the Iraq invasion, claiming it made geopolitical sense or worrying about some drone carrying a warhead and producing a mushroom cloud -- and ohhh myyyy GAWWWWWWDDD they're just 45 minutes away from THE HOMELAND. Yeah, I really don't remember much of that.
But there they are -- smart, experienced veterans of political scheming and infighting, with access to piles of intel and threat assessments, armed with all the info they need to figure out that the Iraq invasion is unjustifiable, illegal, immoral and dumber than dirt. So of course they vote in favor of the IWR and put the official stamp of congressional approval on one of Bushie's greatest steaming piles of imperialist horseshit.
And they actually have the nerve to stand before the people and beg to be returned to the very positions where they've demonstrated convincingly, time after time, they're not remotely qualified to hold for even one term, much less reelected to another.
Some people say, as cute little pug-nosed vacuous content-free what's her name on TV news would say every single time she introduced a new topic or asked a question... Some people say that one of the most serious threats to the republic is the extraordinarily lousy caliber of our politicians, riddled with character defects that could easily become dangerous pathologies in times of high stress. It's bad enough most of them lack any discernible signs of intelligence or wisdom. A powerless dummy isn't nearly as dangerous as, say, Pelosi or Hoyer, even in Washington.
But a well-funded dummy, flush with corporate bribes that pay to keep him all over prime time TV -- 30 seconds of pure bullshit, ads overflowing with the testimonies to his goodness and decency and love of the environment and soft spot for kittens and puppies. All that and he's coming to DC with a corporate wish list for a political agenda, a plan of action so medieval that even whackjob reactionaries would consider it reactionary.
So, confirming that model, there's an entire coven of Inhofes in the capitol, living for those moments when they get to stick it to one of the GOP's favorite whipping boys and racist, sexist wedge issues that would all deprive some group of their Constitutionally guaranteed rights as Americans.
Not that we're real big on supporting those freedoms as the moment, since there's a whole world of evil doers and Islamofascist terrorist out there who want to slit my throat with a centuries-old scimitar.
I've always thought that the best way to fight these evil doers, hanging around in caves 8,000 miles away, is by having the TSA thieves who run the airport misery lines steal countless pairs of sewing scissors from little blue rinse ladies approaching their 80s.
Particularly the ones on their way to some quilting reunion where old friends from 50 years back will have one last chance to hug and cry and laugh and maybe even contribute a stitch or two.
Since the TSA and airport security have nothing to do with thwarting nefarious evil doers and everything to do with training the civilian population to roll over and accept ever more intrusive and increasingly scary interactions with representatives of national security state, you want to enforce the most arbitrary and meaningless rules imaginable.
The sheer weirdness of these rules and regs keeps civilians guessing about what other infractions they may have committed, are any of them so serious they'll be interrogated for hours by the federales, maybe tasered if they don't kick back the proper answer, maybe hustled off in handcuffs, maybe charged with some bullshit conspiracy beef so they really don't have to prove anything and it's up to you to prove a negative, maybe even ending up in a cage wearing an orange jumpsuit at one of the CIA's offshore torture factories.
You can really fuck with people when you maintain the affect and speech patterns of an android. They're never certain what's happening next, which is the key to controlling the civilian population and balancing out the numbers advantage by gripping their hearts in escalating fear and paranoia and eventually making many of them a little crazy, in the clinical sense.
wp
|
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
