Case in point, arguing about politics on Facebook. Granted it’s not a forum given to erudite and thought provoking discussion. “omg you dress is so awesome” and “I totally peed my pants today! LOL!” generally being the deepest and most meaningful of Facebook posts. Politics it seems, brings out the worst in us and political posts should be avoided.
Now if only I’d listen to my own advice. See, I have a problem. I love to start political fights on Facebook as most of my friends are staunch republicans and I am just a little left of Trotsky…so you can see where there might be some issues. Of course I create the issues and start the fights so there’s that.
I’ve vowed to stop this heinous practice and very occasionally I do. I’ll post the usual gibberish mostly about how I’ve peed my pants. Because it happens so often. But then I can’t help myself. I see something somewhere, most probably the hippie commie sites that I read, and feel compelled to share it. I can’t stop.
“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases — bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder — one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.”
–George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946
Sarah Palin likes to fashion herself as one of the regular people. One of you! Not me, mind but you, if you want it. She jets around the country appearing at gatherings of people who forget that Medicare is a government handout and who forget that taxes paid for the road that the used to get to whatever Kmart Sarah is appearing at.
Vanity Fair did a great piece on Frau Palin. Beyond the stiffing the hotel staffs on tips and the yelling, screaming fits of rage, she’s really not a very good person. She has one speech that one can listen to, change “bible” with “constitution” and be good to go.
It’s amazing to me that this charlatan has garnered such “respect” and adoration. The crowds love her. The total and complete love that these huge crowds show for her speaks, I think more to the intelligence of the American public or lack thereof, than it does to the quality of her speeches and rhetoric.
Seriously. I do love America. Where else can a complete tool become a huge radio star, help set the path for a political party and say things that are so batshit crazy that they defy explanation? No where else but right here baby. Right here in the good ol’ U S of A.
Recently Republican masturbatory dream guy Rush Limbaugh implied that Mrs. Obama could take a vacation because of America’s “slave past”.
Last week Glenn Beck said something about the Obama administration being a “planet of the apes” administration.
How do these scumbags get away with this ridiculous garbage and still maintain employment.
Sadly their popularity speaks to the idiocy of the American people.
We’ve made our own bed and now we’re wallowing in the filth.
The Iowa Republican party has completly and totally lost their collective minds. That is, what little bit there is to lose.
Seems that these scholars and patriots want to repeasl the current 13th Amendment and restore the original. All to tweak President Obama on the nose and show just how tough they are. The current 13th Amendment, if you recall, abolished slavery. The god fearing dipshits in Iowa want to repeal this and restore the original which basically addresses the use of the title Esquire and other clauses of “nobility”. There are, of course, a group who have created a website (of course. and a shitty site at that…) to address this. To quote these fine, upstanding Christian young men and women, “This Amendment was for the specific purpose of banning participation in government operations by attorneys and bankers who claimed the Title of Nobility of ‘Esquire.’ These people had joined the International Bar Association or the International Bankers Association and owed their allegiance to the King of England.”
So the entire United States government since 1812 is basically illegal, according to these loons.
I’m all for freedom of speech and the ability for each and everyone of us to say what we want, when we want and how we want. Save for the yelling fire in a theater deal. So we can’t restrict these cretins from jabbering but how and why do people respect and think these people are legit?
Republicans and birthers scream and shout about Obama but they have to realize that what goes around comes around. Any Republicans who win an office where a Democrat was better do something to help the people. We the people not just loon bags. Paybacks will be a motherfucker.
So at a town hall meeting or conference or whatever sort of gathering those who would support and vote for McCain have, a lady stood up and said that we needed to reinstate the draft. As the father of two teenage girls, I’d have to strongly disagree and in fact I might say…are you f*#!Qcking nuts!?!
Seriously Republicans, do you really want a draft? Why don’t each and every Republican member of congress send their kids down to the Army recruiting center? Then how about each and every person who claims to be Republican and who wants to vote for McCain send their kids?
The problem w/this stupid idea is that those going off to war would be, and in fact are, the poor kids who don’t have a daddy in Congress or a daddy who is a bigwig in a large corporation. For most of us normal people who work for a living and who love our kids, we can’t pull the same shenanigans. Granted there are several members of Congress who have sons/daugthers who are serving in the Armed Forces as we speak. To them, I say thank you.
To everyone else who supports this moron, I say, screw you. My kids are not going to Iraq to fight this war that Bush got us in to so that people would quit talking bad about his daddy. Up yours.
