In fact just when I was beginning to think this hair-Club horror was about to make the country snap out of it's boozy delirium and come to it's alleged senses, a new Bloomberg Poll seems to remind us that Republican dementia progresses apace. Trump is seen as the one best able to deal with the kind of terrorists the French efficiently rounded up and killed in a couple of days, Trump with his total lack of experience or knowledge in any distantly related matter. Perhaps the public subscribes to the Maoist notion that one learns from doing and education is meaningless. Perhaps the public doesn't like to be reminded that things are never simple and easy to deal with and it takes more than a massively ignorant blowhard to blow away our problems. Perhaps stupid people are just more confident in stupid people, I don't know. I give up.
Anyway the wimpy, effeminate, quiche eating, French, Nancy Boy we mocked not long ago for telling us Saddam didn't have nukes or the ability to make or deliver them, doesn't seem so cowardly now, does he - or as inept as we are.
But it's not all Trump, apparently the idiots think Carson has a better personality for the job although most of us have still to discern one at all behind the deadpan and the weird emotionless tone of voice he uses to tell us lies and complain it's our fault when he's shown to be more ignorant that anyone who has ever run for public office.
No, I think it's time to give up. We're not a viable nation, forever snatching disaster from the jaws of success, ever unable to tell a charlatan, a phony, an incompetent from a leader. This guy lacks the experience because he was only a Senator and a Harvard Law graduate - but these guys who have never held office? Mavericks! The guy who tells an assailant not to shoot him but shoot the other guy? How brave under fire! The guy who inherited a real estate business and couldn't pass a citizenship test? Presidential! He will just fire our enemies!
Forgetabout it. There's only so long you can support a family member who keeps screwing up. If the world were a family, America would be living in the attic and fed through a slot in the door. I'm tired of it.. I want to go live in one of those hollow pyramids before we start putting people in boxcars and behind walls and nuking Canada. There's nothing left to save here.
It looks bad, even hopeless, and maybe it is. But, the alternative of simply giving up isn't an option. Doing so insures the complete loss of values in America.
ReplyDeleteWe recall another clown from another era; no experience, but a gift of gab, telling voters what they wanted to hear Many laughed him off...until he started the Third Reich.
ReplyDeleteHuman nature. We believe anyone who confirms our secret prejudices and who makes it OK to hate and seek vengeance.
DeleteOf all the countries I'd prefer to live in right now, my hands down choice is ... France!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to convince the wife on Nauru, so far without any luck.
ReplyDeleteI had to look that one up - which makes it all the more attractive.
DeleteWhen a republican wins the White House this time around, then it's time to give up.
ReplyDeleteI remember promising not to give up, and I mean in all seriousness, twenty-fucking years ago. Not to give up hope, no matter how hopeless and fucked up the world seemed to be. Remember, it had just been a few years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh had successfully destroyed the republican party for any foreseeable future. California was under republican rule and xenophobia was in its fullest flower. Yet still, the future sure as hell looked a lot rosier back in 1995 than it does today. But I was already scared fucking shitless. I promised to safeguard the world for our children to the best of my ability.
Let's not jump ship now or at any time. Particularly not in the face of a false threat like the blowhard troll Trump.
Well, giving up isn't an option since I intend to stay alive for a while and off-planet destinations are limited.
ReplyDeleteI don't think history offers any real encouragement. Civilizations fail and countries fail more often and we're failing, not because of some competing entity, but because we're all going insane. As with the Weimar Republic, it only takes some demented demagogue to harnes the power of insanity and hate and ignorance and fear. I look at the political lineup and wonder which demented incompetent will be chosen for us by the titans of industry. As the song goes "any way you look at it, yu lose."
And now we have Carson telling us Syrian refugees are "mad dogs" and Trump wants to create a registry of Muslims so we can "track" them.
ReplyDeleteI'm searching my vocabulary for maledictory terms to describe how I feel about the Republican Party and the Republican media who treat these Satanic bastards as though they were legitimate contenders for office in a free country.
That's fight register Muslims not Guns.