September 3, 2008
How dare he?
Is it just me or does any one else think Giuliani has spent his time equally divided between laughing at his audience and explaining black and white?
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Is it just me or does any one else think Giuliani has spent his time equally divided between laughing at his audience and explaining black and white?
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these are some evil mother fuckers.
He was a…community organizer…
[Audience laughter]
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USA….USA….USA!!!
How do you fight that kind of ignorance? How?
watching the Palin clan on stage just now put me in mind of The Omen.
i know, i know.
my wife just said, “they are so mean.”
you know, what bothers me the most is that they revel in their ignorance.
Republican playbook in the modern era:
Think of a lie. Big or small, doesn’t matter. Have somebody think of one for you if necessary.
Say it a few times. Get used to the taste of it in your mouth.
Say it often, and with conviction. Start to believe it yourself.
Say it really loud. People will buy it. They will.
Works every time.
The crowd was frightening. I don’t mean rowdy–I mean frightening. Did you see security escort someone out of the building?
yeah - on the Netz they showed 3 guys moving a woman swiftly toward an upper level aisle to an exit. they also kept her face turned away from the 1 camera that followed their progress.
i understood it however: did you notice she was flashing the peace sign as she exited…
Daryl has a phrase that keeps repeating in my head: aggressive stupidity.
It has occured to me that the problem with depending on the power of revealed hypocracy is that it contains a gap in time between the revealed premise and its reversal. The evil ones have given up on any logic that requires two compared states. By cutting out that time they can say anything they want at any time–and head straight for the level of impression they are aiming for. It is a flowing effect they are after. This puts logic at a disadvantage, which accounts for the same evil ones’ belief that a willingness to torture doesn’t compromise their claims of holding the moral high ground.
Thanks Deron–but “aggresive stupidity” is Cindy’s phrase. I get all kinds of good stuff from her.
it’s a good one. and has the benefit of being true.
After a weekend of thinking they’d have to pull Palin’s name from the ticket before the convention was over, I now think we have reason to be as nervous as we ever were. If it doesn’t end in blood shed, I’ll be surprised.
I agree, Rick. I’m definitely nervous now.
Rick–I’m working hard to hold back the nerves myself, but my hope is that the drip drip drip of crazy juice from her past will make the GOP feel like a dog with a dead chicken tied around its neck. There have always been and always will be crazies like this bunch and the people who “admire” them, but part of being a nut is not knowing when you have gone a little bit too far. They are often the last to notice that everybody is still smiling–but they are slowly moving away on the bench there beside them. It’s like a kind of cascade failure–that last little quip about how “God wants a pipeline and gave me the plans for it in cubits” can start the glaze-over that seals off the leaking wound. That said–I don’t want to underestimate the ease with which stupid can stand up and salute with its pants at the ankles. We might just all be headed for a ride through the chipper machine.
I was impressed with his teeth-baring. He truly dripped anger towards the latter part of his speech.
Here’s the bottom line: if we’re so ignorant as a country to elect McCain/Palin, it quite literally (and I mean LITERALLY) will mark the beginning of the decline of the United States. I believe this with every fiber of my being.
I’d amend that to the end of the decline.
i would suggest that a McCain/Palin win would not so much mark the beginning of the decline of the U.S. as it would be the first universally agreed upon manifestation of said diminishment.
from my admittedly biased and limited perspective out here in the middle of fly-over country, the beginning occurred on Ronnie Raygun’s watch, was confirmed by SCOTUS in George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al. and has rolled full steam ahead on tracks Cheney/Shrub laid across the once rigid spine of the U. S. Constitution.
a McCain/Palin win would solidify the triumph of corporate fascism (and its room temperature i.q. adherents) without the benefit of having the trains run on time.
i’m way past nervous.
‘course that’s just my opinion; your Pullman car may sway differently throughout the coming long night.
Oh, I don’t think it would be the end–there’s still a long way to fall. We’re clearly in steep decline already, but a McCain victory would represent the point of no return.
I honestly don’t know what I’ll do if the American voters elect McCain/Palin. My first impulse is one of violence. But I’m not sure that this country would be worth fighting for if, after 8 years of Bush, we still haven’t learned anything. I think I’ll have to leave.
I was trying to decide where to go.
I’m thinking Mexico.
I’d like to encourage, if you are inclined to do such things, some letter writing to your various Congressional doofuses (and you might as well send a copy to Bush) indicating that you may be opposed to any October surprises such as inciting military conflicts with Russia and/or Pakistan. That Bush has alienated himself from voters empowers him to do some distracting fearsome shit. The sort of things that a person might think a President McCain should handle.
Damn, Aaron, you’re starting to sound like Daryl. He’s been predicting just that sort of thing for a year now. I would put nothing past them.
I still believe that the Americans who elected Bill Clinton over Bush the Elder will elect Barack Obama over John McCain.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.
Apparently American forces went into Pakistan yesterday (or the day before) and killed about 15 people. The Pakistanis are protesting the incursion; meanwhile, the new head of the government there was shot at several times. Like Aaron says, a president with nothing left to lose is a shoehorn to apocalypse.
Yeah, and the media feels to me like it wants to “cave in” and go with the mob mentality stirred up by the Republican attack machine… if it does, the Democrats will appear to hang, spinning in the wind.
These people don’t play. I will not be surprised when Track sustains some sort of combat injury sometime around Halloween. Also, please look forward to temporarily lower gas prices.
Prince Bandar and Track Palin. Sounds like a totally awesome electronica team.
Okey-doke, that about does me for the scary stories. I’ll be sleeping with the light on.