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Karlis Streips
20 mins
Oh, my God! OK. Deep breath. Deep breath. Deep breath. Cheri Bustos won reelection in Illinois. Scott Brown was a loser in Massachusetts and just as much of a loser in New Hampshire. Al Franken will not have to wait for six months, this time he won thumpingly. But other than that -- oh, my God! America and Americans! Really? Seriously? The hog castrating lady in Iowa? The birther movement guy in Colorado? The patently lunatic governor in Maine? I guess I saw it coming. I mean over at the People's Republic of O'Reillystan they've been flooding America with the most vile and nonsensical propaganda about this for months now. Just the other day, Charles Krauthammer's mug was on Faux News yammering on about how absolutely nothing about the American economy has improved, even though exactly, precisely and totally the opposite is true. I'm sure there's much celebration at Fuck News this morning. I kept myself to just the first headline I saw: "Complete repudiation of President Obama." Yeah. That was it, wasn't it? The guy with the teacup, the guy with the umbrella over his head, the guy who was born in Kenya, the guy who's a Socialist, the guy who's a Fascist, the guy who's a dictator, the guy who's a namby-pamby, and, at the end of the day, the guy who's a black guy. Boo! Can't have that. Apparently the Republithug Party and its bought-and-paid-for hookers at Faux News managed to convince a majority of Americans that they have something better to offer. Well, from a purely journalistic perspective, I suppose they do. Champagne corks are popping over at the Daily Show, I would imagine, at the fact that another crop of teabagging knuckle-draggers is coming to town. It is true for us commentators that idiocy makes for nice copy. But no Champagne for me. John Cornyn, the guy who has said that climate change is " the biggest hoax in human history," is now going to be chairman of the Senate Science Committee. The mind boggles. Already the Republithugs are talking not about, say, what kinds of legislation they might want to pass. No, they're talking about finding the best possible to issue to impeach the President's black ass. It is going to be chaos over the next two years, and ... well, sorry, I just can' t help myself ... hey, Kansas! Yeah, you, the rectangular state in the middle of the country (or more or less square if the word "rectangular" is too complicated for you): First let me say that I am not addressing Kathy Slawson or Scott Rich or anyone else who I know made a good attempt yesterday. But the rest of you: Your "governor" drove your state economy straight into the ditch, people! Straight into the ditch. Is that OK? You really don't care about your schools and such? Apparently so. You reelected the guy! Forgive me, but you are retards. Your "senator" doesn't even LIVE in your state. Is that OK? You really don't care about being represented and such? Apparently so. You reelected the guy! Forgive me, but you are retards. Even your "secretary of state" -- the guy who did everything he possibly could to force someone who did not want to be on the Senate ballot to be on the Senate ballot and then lie out his ass about what he did? Is that OK? You really don't care that your top administrative official is a card-carrying nutcase? Apparently so. You reelected the guy! Forgive me, but you are retards. What's the matter with you?
Whew! I feel better now for getting that off my chest. But I grieve this morning. I grieve that the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and so allowed the Republithugs to suck at the biggest teat in human history for the past six months. I couldn't this morning find whether Chevron managed to buy the Richmond, California City Council so that it can keep on blowing up its plants and not getting sued, but that was just one more or less outlying example of what is a tragedy for American politics. That and the endless, unmitigated, Stalinist propaganda from Faux News. Sorry to mix my tyrant metaphors, but Faux News is a sterling example of Goebbels' maxim that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. I understand freedom of the press and freedom of speech and the like, but Faux News and Russian Television 1 from Moscow are two peas in a pod when it comes to regularly and sneeringly lying their bloody asses off on a 24/7 basis. I know that there is a wing in the Republithug Party that thinks that Vladimir Putin is an all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips stud muffin. Well, there you have it! You're not going to get a Putin in America, but you've got his propaganda arm already.
I take strength in the fact that now that the Republithugs are going to be "running" all of Congress, they will basically cannibalize themselves among their various factions. That should bode well for 2016. But above all, I want to forget for a moment about those Americans who were duped into voting for people like Scott Walker (really, Wisconsin?) and Paul LePage (really, Maine?) and Sam Brownback (really, Kansas?) and speak to those who were elected on the Democratic ticket yesterday. Grow some fucking balls, people! Almost every single one of you ran from President Obama as if he were a gangster at the end of a dark alley this campaign season. Even though the Affordable Care Act works. Even though unemployment is lower than at any time in the past decade. Even though the national budget deficit has been slashed. Even though economic growth in Q3 surpassed expectations. And where were you? You were talking about how you love your guns, too, and you were talking about how yeah, times are tough, and you were talking above all about how you know nothing at all about a guy called Barack Hussein Obama. Don't know him. Don't want to know him. Who is he anyway? Well, that worked real well yesterday, didn't it? You know what, Congressional Democrats? You had it coming, you big pile of wooses!
There. I've vented. It' s only 8:58 AM. Thank you Facebook, for giving me an alternative to just banging my head on a wall. I'm off to fix a second cup of tea and then ... well, maybe I'll be back later. Peace, everyone! Chin up! As the immortal Marty Feldman put it in Young Frankenstein: "Could be worse. Could be raining." |
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