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Nothing New Under the Sun - Shutdown again is dominating the news.
Individual < 1 seems about to shut down the federal government. Amazing.
He's going to punish the American people with still poorer and less responsible governance in his fit of childishness and pique because Congress won't bail him out on his staggering failure of a campaign promise that Mexico would pay for his far less than worthless wall. Individual < 1 and his less than worthless wall.
What percentage of the border would $5B ‘protect?’ 15%? 20? Does he think that border crossers would accommodatingly pick that precise place to fail at their border crossing attempts? I call it projection. If you’re stupid, you think they are, too. Crazy.
Personally, I’m quite fine with him stupidly keeping the focus on his campaign promise failure, and the clarity with which it exposes his sheer lack of qualification for the office he 'holds,' but I object most strenuously to his making the country pay for those many failures.
I also applaud his insight in showing how much his racist base is willing to pay (in hated taxes) for racist expression, no matter how empty the statement actually is. For that, $5 billion is nothing. (Of course, it could never be limited to that. Even Individual < 1 knows that, he just doesn’t care.
Story 2. In miraculous science news, MIT reports the invention of a way to shrink objects to nanoscale! Amazing!
Umm … no, it isn’t expected to be effective with Individual < 1. Everything about him is already shrunken, except his ego, perhaps. Small, small, petty man. But, regarding that unjustifiably outsized ego, their method isn’t going to be successful shrinking what impeccable truth and reality cannot touch.
Too f*cking bad.
Story 3.
You know you’re in bizarro world when Individual < 1’s attorney calls him a liar to the world, and he’s HAPPY with his representation, knowing it offers advantage relative to pending litigation. That’s just nuts.
Dear Individual <1, I am happy to call you a liar, too. From the rooftops. But unlike your attorney, I join hundreds of millions of people around the world hoping that you, for once, face the accountability you deserve. That would help make the world better, just that fast, you liar you.
Story 4.
A Vox story suggests that Paul Ryan has figured out what’s wrong with the Republican Party.
Read if you like, but the man is a rank amateur when it comes to sussing out a valuable, valid truth.
I’m not saying that identity politics isn’t a problem for Republicans, but there are many many bigger problems.
Listen here, Mr. EpicSpeakerFailure. What’s wrong is that your cheating party cares nothing for helpful, effective governance, and everything for limitless power-never-to-be-exercised-for-anyone-but-the-<1%. Literary fiction has stories of people who sold their souls for profit and power, but they have nothing on your party. One of your largest lies is the illusion you sell to every one of your voters that they can have it all. That’s why your party doesn’t have to compromise.
But your electoral cheating means that your party (and its representatives) canNOT compromise. MAY not compromise, or they will be primaried out of office. Any compromise is understood by the purists you enable and cultivate to be weakness. If they can’t have everything, they’re much happier with nothing than with compromise. With reason, with fairness, with truth. This is the bed you have made, and you think you’re going to identify what’s ‘wrong’ with your party? All you do is reveal that your integrity is in no way better than Individual <1’s is. That your sense of truth and reality are no better.
You have a lot of growing up to do, a lot of learning to do. Thank goodness you aren’t going to be causing catastrophic harm while doing that anymore. Though, frankly, I have little faith that you will do any good out of office. Let us guess, you aren’t bailing on Congress because your ambitions have been fulfilled. No, I didn’t think so.
Stand back, Mr. failed former Speaker. We’re going to tell you and ALL of your corrupt pals what is wrong with your party. And many more will join you out of office when we do. As you so richly deserve.
Unlike you, we don’t ‘want it all,’ but neither are we going to allow the <1% to have it. They don’t need it, they don’t deserve it, they can’t have it.
As you all know, there are many many more stories out there. More rambling next time!
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