Are ya uncomfortable showering at the gym? Asked Rick Santorum of
students at a "Students for Life" rally last month. Apparently he
thought they should be, because there might be 'Liberals' in the shower
and you know they can't stop talking about abortion rights and saying
uncomfortable things. Of course Students for Life aren't lifetime
students nor are they particularly interested in preserving life in
general - only that of unbaptized embryos. But hey, Students for Imaginary Biblical Commandments is too long for people whose lips move when they read.
And
those are Rick's people. People who somehow see a point in his idiotic
jabberwocky. But even those people can't be expected to focus very long,
and so the pretense that liberals will follow you into the shower down at the YMCA to
discuss reproductive rights until you're uncomfortable is more likely
than that Rick's little village people will likely follow you anywhere and everywhere
to blather about not showering with Liberals.
It's all
about youth and beauty says Rick, incomprehensibly, but it's also all
about a culture of death that needs sparks and someone to rebel. If
that makes any kind of sense to you, I don't want you or Rick in my
shower. Particularly if you love people the way Rick and his
chosen claim to. Rick thinks his flock is very much like the liberals who
broke away from England, even though he's a Conservative and he thinks
conservatives did away with slavery and that's why we had to rebel.
Sorry If I'm making your stomach rebel.
Oh hell,
it's impossible to make sense of any of that passionately meaningless
garbage about -- about whatever it is he's blathering about, about what
'the left' has done to America in recent times. Those are basically
meaningless things he says, even when he says they aren't, but don't
look for anything more than the barking of dogs at a Santorum giggle
gallery, because people who think it's OK to kill children and people
who are so retarded and mentally ill they don't know right from wrong,
are people who don't get to gurgle and gobble and gargle about anyone's
right to remain alive even when that "someone" isn't a someone. I
doubt his audience needs a coherent or factual argument anyway.
They're mostly looking for a comfortable venue to express their
righteous contempt and those things only get in the way of the
self-esteem they think they acquire from being a "conservative" at best.
You need to hear it,
because it's none too early, with the Republicans beginning their
campaign of meaningless babble and emotional idiocy and self-righteous
lies. This idiot intends to run for president again and he will have
followers again and this expression of the worst, most retrograde
manifestation of human meanness and stupidity will always be with us.
I have nothing witty or pithy to add to this - I think you have covered it all quite well but I will be chuckling all day whenever I think of this post.
ReplyDeleteIt's not good to pith in the shower, but really, the laughs are no credit to me. It's supplied in abundance and free of charge by the idiot Right. All I do is write it down.
ReplyDeleteOh heck. I'll see your Frothy and raise you one: A Fraud Perpetrated by Liberals to Create Global Government.
ReplyDeleteOK, who wins the pot?
Sometimes I'm surprised that there isn't a third political party - the Willfully Blind Paranoids, or maybe the Christian Paranoid Delusionals or the Psychotic Denialists of America. But then what do you expect from monkeys?
ReplyDeleteI remember reading Dana's Two Years Before the Mast years ago and the description of the massive wildfires along the coast visible way out to sea. Fires tend to be worse now in part because we prevent them and allow the combustibles to build up to dangerous levels. They used to be prevalent here in Florida and still are except in those areas where we burn off the land periodically, which keeps out invasive species and allows the pines to propagate. They only release seeds during a burn.
Fires, and that's what I'm trying to illustrate, are natural and necessary and are part of a process that used to keep nature looking like it used to look. I'm not sure it's necessary to attribute recent fires to climate change and there are enough other man made changes to muddy the waters to use an inept metaphor. Of course a fire that once would have been of no consequence is now serious because there are fewer places we haven't built housing in. But there is so much data from so many sources that this idiot's contention is as indefensible as the Jerusalem centered Universe.
Anyway, the assault on science and the crusade against truth isn't anything new either. Ask Galileo. People aren't any more stupid or ignorant or plainly demented, it's just that the consequences of our continued denialist dementia are getting steadily scarier, just like the consequences of our forest fires, because there are so many more of us. 7 billion, and when it's 10 and then 20 billion, human flatulence alone will be a fire hazard and at 40 billion life won't be worth living.
I have no expectation that humans will fail to make the planet unlivable. We are, in fact a disease that will die out sooner or later as diseases which kill their host tend to do.
A pimple on an elephant's ass.
ReplyDeleteHe does provide entertainment though, that "Frothy One!"