I said “finished,” and “finished” is what I meant
They’ve learned nothing, and do not deserve the merest shred of further support. Get used to hearing “President Clinton” adoringly murmured by suck-butt LLMSM sycophants at WH press conferences again, people – it’s coming as surely as night follows day.
Screw the Repubs, from now on, in the heart. There has to be a better way. Meaning, of course, that there has to be a better party.
Update! Once again, Mary K says it better:
Welcome to “Survivor: The Isle of Crappy Republican Leadership.”
This season: voting off everyone who could have a shot at turning the flailing party around!
Would that she were wrong. Screw the Repubs.
Updated update! Blogs of War is rapidly becoming your one-stop shop for blogospheric reaction. Taste the bile, baby.
Update to the updated update! Bill calls it:
In view of all this, permit me to advance the thought that maybe these people are not the best and the brightest, but merely the stubbornest and the most feral. You knew them well in high school and college – they were the officers of your class, the heads of the prom committee, the dorks you thought were pretty useless. As a group, the only people you probably despised more are those folks who now run the US educational system. You called them nerds back then.
And that is what we have become: a nation ruled by dorks and nerds, who think of themselves as kings and queens.
This sort of reminds me of something my friend Chris proposed years ago: that Rush Limbaugh was most likely the guy in high school who went out for waterboy, subsequently spending a lot of his time on the locker room floor, weeping and pleading for mercy from the jocks who were taping lit cigars between his asscheeks and pouring Absorbine Jr over his nuts; it wasn’t until he got behind the “golden EIB microphone” that he had his revenge on ‘em. Of course, that sort of leaves out consideration of what high-school role the eventual-liberals might have played, but having been there I think I can fill in that blank: we were hiding around the corner of the building, burning weed, drooling over the hot chick of the day, making plans to cut our last class to go play foosball or drag race our cars, and talking about how much we hated EVERYBODY.
Sound about right to you folks? Or no?
- Entries
Kelly Bundy: Yes, but if you pull its wings off, it'll eat anything you give it...
Time to pull off the GOP's wings...
I wonder if there are enough unemployed engineers in the blogosphere to build a leadership for a new political party, based on cold hard science and real-world solutions. Call it the "Reason" Party, set up an organization that mirrors the classic peer-review systems that used to be used at universities and research centers, and enforce a stringent set of accountability and transparency regulations to ensure that, while it may not always be popular, it will at least be correct.
Everyone involved would have to understand that the goal is not to win national elections, at least not right away. Appeals to belief result in far faster popularity than just being right all the time, but then when the lies become known, eventually enough people would come around, and as long as the Reason party remained dedicated to truth, popularity would come in time, just as it has gradually come to science itself, over the unprovable beliefs of the religious.
Oh fuck no. Fucking hell no. That's the last thing we need, some completely out of touch lab wanker trying to figure out how to re-invent government.
Frankly, your whole proposal is based on some pretty far out notions. Would you be insulted if I suggested that some premise checking might be in order? Start with the idea of what causes people to vote the way they do.
But, of course, everyone who even thinks of applying science to any problem just has to be an out-of-touch lab wanker. Whatever, man, I should have known from the tone of the post that this thread would be packed with net nerds desperately trying to pretend they were all chest-thumping jocks in high school.
I WAS a chest-thumping jock in high school. I did judo and played intramural sports in college...but I will admit, I'm a nerd. I like sci-fi, internet silliness, role-playing games, and useless trivia...and I will not apologize for it...:P
Doesn't matter, just conjuring up the high school imagery itself is enough to guarantee a comment thread filled with variations of "I was a such total jock from the day I was born, I banged the hottest cheerleader in school in the middle of the prom floor and set off a mass orgy." Case in point...
"I WAS a chest-thumping jock in high school. I did judo and played intramural sports in college…"
Big whoop, I did Tae Kwon Do and played intramural sports in college. You're not a jock unless you're always one of the first three people chosen for any pickup sports team, and I'm pretty sure most netizens are twelfth-rank picks at best for any team that actually cared about winning.
Even with my fancy black belt and experience on the volleyball court, I'm still the guy who always gets told to go home because my presence on any team (even a volleyball team!) would ruin the whole game. Martial arts and recreational sports are little more than exercises in self-esteem building and dweeby fantasy fulfillment with little use in real-world settings. Even the physical "exercise" you get is nothing compared to what jocks put themselves through just to hold their ground in the play-to-win world they live in.
I'm actually of two minds about this: on the one hand, Lott is an earmarking insider who's made a career out of pork. OTOH, his selection amounts to a swift kick in the 'nads to the professional race warlords, a skill the GOP needs to perfect and use more often. It probably isn't enough to balance the scales, but it was nice to see.
dickhead. You're probably the kind of douchebag that raped co-eds and beat weaklings out of frustration cause life was so hard being a jock...get over yourself.
1. I wasn't bragging, just trying to be humorous
2. I was just saying I was a jock AND a nerd and enjoyed being a part of both worlds
3. Tae Kwon do is fast food martial arts for dipshits too lazy to learn real discipline
4. take a fucking midol and get a grip.