As Pericles noted so long ago, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." For anyone who thinks American politics is a spectator sport, a reality show with winners and losers and a new round of contestants every 10 to 15 years, well guess what: It's not a show, and all these fucking lunatics are masturbating furiously at the thought of being able to dictate YOUR sex life to YOU.
Way more than half the problem is that Republican/Conservative policies and beliefs are so far out there that it's impossible to convince the average citizen that those policies and beliefs are real. "Oh, they'd never [eliminate Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare/SNAP/housing assistance/LIHEAP. etc.]. That would be crazy!!!" Yet, you show that person the GOP's published platform that says in black-and-white that they have vowed to eliminate all of those things and you get "Oh, that can't be real."
So keep on ignoring politics. Keep on treating it like a reality show you're just not into. Soon enough you'll find that Republicans' dreams have come true, leaving you and everyone else in a waking nightmare.
<If this were a real binary conflict and I had to choose, Iād go with Trump, too>
Fortunately though, for David French, he's conferred upon himself the freedom to fly his non-binary freak flag.
Restraint would be evil, after all - if it prevented him from sharing his bed (his very very highbrow-intellectual bed) with both Sohrab Ahmari and Donald Trump. Plus any gun-nuts, forced-birthers, theocrats, flat-taxers, thuggish lib-baiters, and fascist-adjacent punctuation-challenged all-caps rage-tweeters that take his fancy.
Yes, the concept of compromise is utterly alien to conservatives, which is why Joe Biden is being utterly delusional and asking Democrats to be nice to Republicans. If Biden talked like this to Mitch McConnell he'd tear his head off (metaphorically, of course). The GOP are all dead-enders in that respect.
Thanks for this. I hate the many pseudo-debates on the right that are somehow seen by our side as actual intellectual discourse rather than stupid kayfabe. We are trying way too hard to give them the benefit of the doubt, which they really don't deserve.
Roy, who's giving you grief for covering the insane right-wing nuttery that Trump/FOX/TalkRadio has poisoned the country with?
Right now, just up the block from me in Commie New York City, there's an older couple who have commandeered an entire street corner for a bevy of placards, a picnic umbrella, and a table with "literature". The giant posters read "DEFEND TRUMP!", "JAIL MUELLER", "RUSSIA DIDN'T HACK THE DNC!", "WHO REALLY INTERFERED IN 2016? THE BRITISH EMPIRE!" Okay, I didn't get that last one either until further investigation revealed that these two are Lyndon LaRouche Loons, a species I hadn't come across in years and who I thought would have died out along with their loony leader this past year. But here's the thing: back in the 70's and 80's, LaRouche was the fringiest of Ć¼ber-right-wing cranks, a rabid conspiranoid who attracted only the most certifiable of followers. But now, his insane movement has been lapped by Fox News, talk-radio, and all the whackjobs that Roy covers. It's no surprise that the most fanatical and idiotic movements of past days are now spouting the same Trump-shite as mainstream channels on my TV. And that's why Roy's beat is actually important. In years past, his service was prophylactic, now it's a last ditch curative, or maybe triage as we bleed out. Either way, sign me up for another year!
Re: David French. It is a real binary choice and everyone who has chosen Trump or would choose Trump over anything short of Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot/Genghis Khan/ Vlad the Impaler has deposited their moral conscience somewhere beneath the Tau Tona Gold Mine.
As with the law, so it is with the Canons of Civility: there must be those whom it binds but doesn't protect, and those whom it protects but doesn't bind.
ā... the rutting life of the sexual revolution, where restraint is evil, physical experience is king, and people are simply sentient mammals trying to get the best out of lifeā
I'm starting to think that Republicans actually enjoy gun violence and wish it would spread. The hysterical garbage that their media (and that's most of it) spreads seems to have one motive - to make their base angrier and crazier, and that Werner Herzog's quote "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches" is constantly on their seething minds.
Conserva-nirvana: In Which David French Turns His Wife's Electronic Chastity Belt Into A Real One, For All American And Non-American Women
As Pericles noted so long ago, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." For anyone who thinks American politics is a spectator sport, a reality show with winners and losers and a new round of contestants every 10 to 15 years, well guess what: It's not a show, and all these fucking lunatics are masturbating furiously at the thought of being able to dictate YOUR sex life to YOU.
Way more than half the problem is that Republican/Conservative policies and beliefs are so far out there that it's impossible to convince the average citizen that those policies and beliefs are real. "Oh, they'd never [eliminate Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare/SNAP/housing assistance/LIHEAP. etc.]. That would be crazy!!!" Yet, you show that person the GOP's published platform that says in black-and-white that they have vowed to eliminate all of those things and you get "Oh, that can't be real."
So keep on ignoring politics. Keep on treating it like a reality show you're just not into. Soon enough you'll find that Republicans' dreams have come true, leaving you and everyone else in a waking nightmare.
<If this were a real binary conflict and I had to choose, Iād go with Trump, too>
Fortunately though, for David French, he's conferred upon himself the freedom to fly his non-binary freak flag.
Restraint would be evil, after all - if it prevented him from sharing his bed (his very very highbrow-intellectual bed) with both Sohrab Ahmari and Donald Trump. Plus any gun-nuts, forced-birthers, theocrats, flat-taxers, thuggish lib-baiters, and fascist-adjacent punctuation-challenged all-caps rage-tweeters that take his fancy.
That Cowen line is so precious, keyed to one of those state laws requiring doctors to tell lies to their patients https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/counseling-and-waiting-periods-abortion "So now you think consumers don't deserve to be informed?" as if he'd ever accepted an informed-consumer regulation in his life.
Yes, the concept of compromise is utterly alien to conservatives, which is why Joe Biden is being utterly delusional and asking Democrats to be nice to Republicans. If Biden talked like this to Mitch McConnell he'd tear his head off (metaphorically, of course). The GOP are all dead-enders in that respect.
Thanks for this. I hate the many pseudo-debates on the right that are somehow seen by our side as actual intellectual discourse rather than stupid kayfabe. We are trying way too hard to give them the benefit of the doubt, which they really don't deserve.
Roy, who's giving you grief for covering the insane right-wing nuttery that Trump/FOX/TalkRadio has poisoned the country with?
Right now, just up the block from me in Commie New York City, there's an older couple who have commandeered an entire street corner for a bevy of placards, a picnic umbrella, and a table with "literature". The giant posters read "DEFEND TRUMP!", "JAIL MUELLER", "RUSSIA DIDN'T HACK THE DNC!", "WHO REALLY INTERFERED IN 2016? THE BRITISH EMPIRE!" Okay, I didn't get that last one either until further investigation revealed that these two are Lyndon LaRouche Loons, a species I hadn't come across in years and who I thought would have died out along with their loony leader this past year. But here's the thing: back in the 70's and 80's, LaRouche was the fringiest of Ć¼ber-right-wing cranks, a rabid conspiranoid who attracted only the most certifiable of followers. But now, his insane movement has been lapped by Fox News, talk-radio, and all the whackjobs that Roy covers. It's no surprise that the most fanatical and idiotic movements of past days are now spouting the same Trump-shite as mainstream channels on my TV. And that's why Roy's beat is actually important. In years past, his service was prophylactic, now it's a last ditch curative, or maybe triage as we bleed out. Either way, sign me up for another year!
Very few people realize there is a massive mental health problem underlying the so-called
"pro-life" movement.
Re: David French. It is a real binary choice and everyone who has chosen Trump or would choose Trump over anything short of Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot/Genghis Khan/ Vlad the Impaler has deposited their moral conscience somewhere beneath the Tau Tona Gold Mine.
As with the law, so it is with the Canons of Civility: there must be those whom it binds but doesn't protect, and those whom it protects but doesn't bind.
ā... the rutting life of the sexual revolution, where restraint is evil, physical experience is king, and people are simply sentient mammals trying to get the best out of lifeā
Jings, where can I join?!
I'm starting to think that Republicans actually enjoy gun violence and wish it would spread. The hysterical garbage that their media (and that's most of it) spreads seems to have one motive - to make their base angrier and crazier, and that Werner Herzog's quote "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches" is constantly on their seething minds.