Idiocracy. I never would have said this even 5 years ago, but unfortunately it wouldn’t surprise me if a few years from now Marjorie Taylor Greene is considered a centrist within the ranks of the GOP.
By then the Q-Anon Shaman will be Senate majority leader, having killed McConnell during the 2022 storming of the Capitol Building, and then eaten his heart on the Senate floor (provided it’s organic, of course).
By then he'll have some younger person's heart, a la Dick Cheney. (OT: compare and contrast "Vice" and "Last Christmas" from a cardiovascular transplantation surprise ending standpoint.)
Those tweet-generating apps are amazing. I was playing with one to create a model of canonicity, but got tired after a dozen or so, trying to think of funny handles for various Tudor playwrights
One of the tweets I generated was Aemelia Lanyer pointing out that the plot of Hamlet was staged a year earlier by a women playwright, and then Francis Bacon dismissing her by pointing out how many followers she had.
As for that Trump train thing: As I read it, I thought: The train that comes to Donnie very weak mind when would see that would be the kind of train pulled on old man Fanelli's daughter downstairs from the bar in Little Italy back in the 70s, if you know what I mean. And then I read on and Roy beat me to it.
Uhh, random sodomizing of intrusive furriners and flatlanders is, in fact, not the widely observed custom in this area, the borderlands where AL, GA, NC, SC, and TN, my native Reddest Redneckistan.
Deliverance was made on the Chattoga River, in Rabun Co (GA. 10th district, Awful Christian dirtbag Jody Hice the Rep) and written and sat in Gilmer Co (where J. Dickey had a cabin, and once took a canoe trip on the Coosawattee River with some Atlanta buddies and running into some scary but ultimately benign rednecks/moonshiners before it’s impoundment in Carters reservoir..), which is in Doug Collins old 9th district).
As a gay guy, it’s been profoundly depressing that folks reach for this as a potentially erotic scenario...and expect me to play the part.
...fuck that shit.
And Greene should be seen as the result of 4+decades of NRA rightist “They are coming for your guns” bullshit, which is now an article of faith among most rural Georgia Republicans (i.e., the majority in the enumerated districts..)
Greene’s 14th is the NW corner of GA: the “Lost State of Dade”( County,cut off from the rest of the state by Lookout Mountain), the cities of Rome (Mussolini gave it a Capitoline Wolf statue in the 1920..all roads don’t lead there) and Dalton “the Carpet Capital” (where the mills are increasingly filled with i migrant Hispanic workers), the Northern Chattanooga Suburbs, and the Atlanta NW suburbs..
In the late 70's, a few years after PBS showed "An American Family" about the Louds, PBS ran another documentary series called "Six American Families*", each 1 hour-episode featuring a different family. One of them profiled the Burks, a rural white Georgia clan from Dalton, smack dab in Greene's district. These folks epitomized the phrase 'dirt poor,' and they were so backwoods that WNET in NYC had to run it with English subtitles. While their plight as victims of capitalism evoked sympathy, they were almost proudly ignorant and illiterate, and disdainful of anyone who wasn't. Whenever I read a quote from MTG or her fellow loonies, it conjures up an image of the Burks, who after 50 years of concentrated pecking, finally learned how to type.
*An excellent series, documenting families from Chicago, New York, California, etc. The Burks episode was produced and directed by the Maysles brothers, among others.
I grew up “born in a house with the television on”, to a family striving to be middle class, valuing education and the idea us kid would 1)go college, and 2) get to somewhere better. I had 7-8 aunts uncles cousins as educators..We never got the proud ignorance thing, which i mostly encountered as Evangelical rejection of science and “book learning “.
Still, nothing was considered as bizarre as a large muscular farm kid who loved books and had a complete aversion to team sports.
I'm actually surprised we still *have* GPTV. I think without "Hometown (town of the week)" (sample here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060NmSzYraU) the state legislature would have voted it out of existence already.
"Deliverance" sucked in so many ways: from the homophobic vibe to Burt Reynolds' "acting." Also, it took decades for the banjo to recover (thank you Steve Martin and also "Brother, Where Art Thou?"). A test I developed after watching "Pulp Fiction": a movie is crap if it borrows from "Deliverance" to be edgy.
It really did develop a cult following like it had something important to say. I found a confusing barrage of upsetting violence & deep anti-Southern hostility
To each his own. I like Deliverance. I don't take it to mean "hillbillies are all rapists" and note that a lot of other well-regarded movies contain scenes where the simples rape or menace *women.* Pulp Fiction, on the other hand...
A lot of folks have decided, for reasons of living in a cultural bubble of Rightist media, the more toxic version of Evangelicalism, the simmering Racist/Fascist core that formed the KKK and now the Militias, a toxic gun culture, ongoing sexual panic..
For a lot of people there has been no downside for choosing to have the world view of their cohort, as it's the world view of the local powers that be. The Right opinion formers have worked hard on this.
It's taken decades. I think the bubble can be broken: it's not airtight, and in every red district there are always 25-30% usually Democratic votes.
For what it's worth, Greene's district overlaps that of late nutso paleoconservative Congressman Larry McDonald, second President of the John Birch Society. He famously said the Commies would get him, and he died on Korea Air 007...
(wipes brow) Whew. Glad I read the comments. You know me, I'll fall for anything. Meanwhile, Roy retweeted and thus alerted me to this, which (especially for editing-challenged Medium) is a pretty good, succinct analysis of the rise of Boebert/Taylor Greene/Cawthorne (great phrase) "performative lib-owning."
These QAnon politicians have a very high percentage chance of ending up like the characters in the final scene of Reservoir Dogs, but without any of the interesting dialog leading up to that moment.
Um . . . Poe's Law is a terrible thing.
Idiocracy. I never would have said this even 5 years ago, but unfortunately it wouldn’t surprise me if a few years from now Marjorie Taylor Greene is considered a centrist within the ranks of the GOP.
By then the Q-Anon Shaman will be Senate majority leader, having killed McConnell during the 2022 storming of the Capitol Building, and then eaten his heart on the Senate floor (provided it’s organic, of course).
That heart is most certainly not organic, so happy there I guess
By then he'll have some younger person's heart, a la Dick Cheney. (OT: compare and contrast "Vice" and "Last Christmas" from a cardiovascular transplantation surprise ending standpoint.)
The process is very much like Temple of Doom, I hear
The Q-Anon shaman has been dubbed "Q-Baca."
I almost thought the first tweet was real before I checked the date. Chilling *and* hilarious, Roy!
Likewise! You’ve outdone yourself yet again!
Eh, Roy's posting now what's getting written in the near future. Get back to us after the 29th and The Man will be vindicated.
Those tweet-generating apps are amazing. I was playing with one to create a model of canonicity, but got tired after a dozen or so, trying to think of funny handles for various Tudor playwrights
Publish!
Will do. It's a kooky project, but worth doing. I was going to use Prezzie for the inteface
I was going to use “WillieShakesBear” for a porn account..
Exit pursued by WillieShakesBear
You've read my wish book. It's titled "A Winter's Tale"
One of the tweets I generated was Aemelia Lanyer pointing out that the plot of Hamlet was staged a year earlier by a women playwright, and then Francis Bacon dismissing her by pointing out how many followers she had.
See, that's funny.
(Idly wondering if drones might work about as well on Al-Qanon as they do on Al-Qaida. . . )
Given that drones kill more innocent people than combatants, we'll have to see
So they’ll work equally well is what you’re saying
Allegedly -- people say -- that Greene's district includes the part of Georgia that encompasses, well, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqNMjZpSbnU
As for that Trump train thing: As I read it, I thought: The train that comes to Donnie very weak mind when would see that would be the kind of train pulled on old man Fanelli's daughter downstairs from the bar in Little Italy back in the 70s, if you know what I mean. And then I read on and Roy beat me to it.
(sigh)
Uhh, random sodomizing of intrusive furriners and flatlanders is, in fact, not the widely observed custom in this area, the borderlands where AL, GA, NC, SC, and TN, my native Reddest Redneckistan.
Deliverance was made on the Chattoga River, in Rabun Co (GA. 10th district, Awful Christian dirtbag Jody Hice the Rep) and written and sat in Gilmer Co (where J. Dickey had a cabin, and once took a canoe trip on the Coosawattee River with some Atlanta buddies and running into some scary but ultimately benign rednecks/moonshiners before it’s impoundment in Carters reservoir..), which is in Doug Collins old 9th district).
As a gay guy, it’s been profoundly depressing that folks reach for this as a potentially erotic scenario...and expect me to play the part.
...fuck that shit.
And Greene should be seen as the result of 4+decades of NRA rightist “They are coming for your guns” bullshit, which is now an article of faith among most rural Georgia Republicans (i.e., the majority in the enumerated districts..)
Greene’s 14th is the NW corner of GA: the “Lost State of Dade”( County,cut off from the rest of the state by Lookout Mountain), the cities of Rome (Mussolini gave it a Capitoline Wolf statue in the 1920..all roads don’t lead there) and Dalton “the Carpet Capital” (where the mills are increasingly filled with i migrant Hispanic workers), the Northern Chattanooga Suburbs, and the Atlanta NW suburbs..
In the late 70's, a few years after PBS showed "An American Family" about the Louds, PBS ran another documentary series called "Six American Families*", each 1 hour-episode featuring a different family. One of them profiled the Burks, a rural white Georgia clan from Dalton, smack dab in Greene's district. These folks epitomized the phrase 'dirt poor,' and they were so backwoods that WNET in NYC had to run it with English subtitles. While their plight as victims of capitalism evoked sympathy, they were almost proudly ignorant and illiterate, and disdainful of anyone who wasn't. Whenever I read a quote from MTG or her fellow loonies, it conjures up an image of the Burks, who after 50 years of concentrated pecking, finally learned how to type.
*An excellent series, documenting families from Chicago, New York, California, etc. The Burks episode was produced and directed by the Maysles brothers, among others.
I grew up “born in a house with the television on”, to a family striving to be middle class, valuing education and the idea us kid would 1)go college, and 2) get to somewhere better. I had 7-8 aunts uncles cousins as educators..We never got the proud ignorance thing, which i mostly encountered as Evangelical rejection of science and “book learning “.
Still, nothing was considered as bizarre as a large muscular farm kid who loved books and had a complete aversion to team sports.
Ok, half through the Burkes doc, and, yeah, those are the Greene cultists grandparents..
I wonder why it never made GA PubicTV...(/s)
I'm actually surprised we still *have* GPTV. I think without "Hometown (town of the week)" (sample here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060NmSzYraU) the state legislature would have voted it out of existence already.
I hear she doesn't even live there
"Deliverance" sucked in so many ways: from the homophobic vibe to Burt Reynolds' "acting." Also, it took decades for the banjo to recover (thank you Steve Martin and also "Brother, Where Art Thou?"). A test I developed after watching "Pulp Fiction": a movie is crap if it borrows from "Deliverance" to be edgy.
It really did develop a cult following like it had something important to say. I found a confusing barrage of upsetting violence & deep anti-Southern hostility
To each his own. I like Deliverance. I don't take it to mean "hillbillies are all rapists" and note that a lot of other well-regarded movies contain scenes where the simples rape or menace *women.* Pulp Fiction, on the other hand...
My bad. MTG's district (allegedly) encompasses the are that inspired that scene.
But less facetiously, what votes for someone like her?
A lot of folks have decided, for reasons of living in a cultural bubble of Rightist media, the more toxic version of Evangelicalism, the simmering Racist/Fascist core that formed the KKK and now the Militias, a toxic gun culture, ongoing sexual panic..
For a lot of people there has been no downside for choosing to have the world view of their cohort, as it's the world view of the local powers that be. The Right opinion formers have worked hard on this.
It's taken decades. I think the bubble can be broken: it's not airtight, and in every red district there are always 25-30% usually Democratic votes.
For what it's worth, Greene's district overlaps that of late nutso paleoconservative Congressman Larry McDonald, second President of the John Birch Society. He famously said the Commies would get him, and he died on Korea Air 007...
You mean like in "Last Exit to Brooklyn" -- yikes that's a book I will never read again. Yuk
You are disturbingly good at this, Roy.
I seriously believed this was real. Which disturbs me even more than Kristi Noem being governor of my state.
That's some serious disturbment
As though a million yahoos brayed out in stupidity, and then . . . FFFAAAAAAARRRRRT
(apologies to both Star Wars and Roy’s Jonah impression)
Well, more like 750,000 yay-hoos
This is the part of the Twilight Zone where we all realize Roy is prescient.
"President"
Molson Labe was a pretty good beer before they diluted it with weak Canadian liberal tears.
RealMen™ don't let their _mouths_ anywhere near any kind of labe.
Tomorrow, tomorrow,
It's only a nightmare awa-a-ay!
(wipes brow) Whew. Glad I read the comments. You know me, I'll fall for anything. Meanwhile, Roy retweeted and thus alerted me to this, which (especially for editing-challenged Medium) is a pretty good, succinct analysis of the rise of Boebert/Taylor Greene/Cawthorne (great phrase) "performative lib-owning."
https://gen.medium.com/the-anti-squad-makes-its-mark-79fcbc4e2fd
Tip: Hard to own the libs when those seeking to own are as beyond the pale, so to speak, as MGT, Boebert and Cawthorne.
These QAnon politicians have a very high percentage chance of ending up like the characters in the final scene of Reservoir Dogs, but without any of the interesting dialog leading up to that moment.
Absolutely no good dialogue. Ben Shapiro's Reservoir Dogs