DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
The conservative grift seems like such an easy dodge: Mouth a few idiotic slogans you didn’t even have to think up yourself, rake in the bucks (just ask Lauren Witzke). But there’s apparently some kind of secret code involved that prevents it from working for just anyone. For example, the crank yanker who organized a D.C. rally to support the Jan. 6 insurrectionists forgot to say “Simon says,” so almost nobody showed up for the comically failed endeavor.
Joe Biden’s progressive spending bill is being nibbled to death, not by ducks by so-called “Democrats” who think Bill Clinton’s class treason is an admirable place to stand. Thanks, Bill Clinton.
Though that article concentrates on three useless “Democrat” fucks, the sickness runs though the entire party. Sure, there are exceptions, but a closer look reveals Chris Coons-style treason is a feature, not a bug, which is why Biden’s plan to tax the rich probably won’t go anywhere.
The thing I hate most about Republicans is that they’re impervious to facts and evidence. For example, a bunch of Republican governors got it into their heads — this wasn’t a challenge because their heads are, as a rule, as empty as the unpeopled wastes they govern — that if they cut unemployment benefits, people would be forced to take the shitty, dangerous jobs they were too intelligent to take. The result: states that did so saw only half the economic growth of the states outside of Dumbfuckistan.
We think of the Permanent War Machine as an American phenomenon, but the “industrial” part of the military-industrial complex is a global curse. Australia, for instance, has triggered a diplomatic crisis with France by reneging on a deal to buy French submarines and buying American nuclear-powered subs instead. Because, y’know, China might come to totally dominate the Australian economy — how could it not? — but not if the Aussies have submarines? Yeah, right. Pay up, suckers.
The floor’s yours.
True story. A friend of mine, fully-vaccinated and masked, came down with a breakthrough case of COVID. He was a volunteer in the Beer Garden for the Arden Fair. The case was almost certainly due to his interaction with a bunch of unmasked MAGAts who insisted on parking their motorcycles in the space reserved for loading and unloading of the bands.
I know b/c that space is our driveway. We’re right across from the main stage, and our driveway has been used forever as the place for bands to use during Fair day.
Hillary committed a political mistake by labeling these people as ‘deplorables’ b/c it played into the meme of her as an elitist.
But these people ARE deplorable, and they are now determined just to ruin shit for everybody.
Her only mistake was underestimating how many deplorables populate this nation.
We’re an example for the world: Become prosperous, raise a generation of vipers.
“We’re an example for the world: Become prosperous, raise a generation of vipers.”
Much prefer a generation of idiots, but most of what the Republicans have become has always been here. The racial hatred, the stupid subservience to the big money, the distrust of higher education and of course the worship of guns. Did I mention a distinct Fascist tinge? Growing up on Long Island there was still the memory that prior to
W.W. II there were an abundance of Hitler fans, including Charles Lindberg. Trump awakened it, but it was here long before that.