The outrage at the "lost" WH disk drives.
One commenter's words are to the effect "we'll tell them that we're assuming the worst, since they can't produce the drives".
Boy - that'll show them. Tell them that we assume the worst (Cheney is looking for his therapist right now)
"We should {verb here} , {another verb here} . . ."
Talk impeachment as well - now they're really shaking.
Doesn't anyone get it yet? They don't GIVE a shit, and they never will.
They ignore detractors like tired men ignore flies; all counter-efforts are in the end nothing but distractions that fill OUR days.
HELLOOOOOOOOO! ! ! !
THEY. DON'T. GIVE. A. SHIT.
Is anyone listening?
Get it through your heads. All the commentary and Leahy's "tough" talk don't even register. They know that nobody has the balls and the voting-power to put them out (and don't tell me about the coming Democratic landslide either - that's barely going to change a thing)
Have you noticed the Supreme Court and the AG also don't give a shit? Funny how that worked out, isn't it? Just kinda fell into place.
The illusion that anything can be done about this is the most intrinsically misinformed, misguided thing on the face of the earth.
There might have been a time when the fabled "checks and balances" could have had an effect, but in reality, for a long time before GWB it was the remnants (stress that : "remnants") of decency of office-holders that prevented the catastrophic CLUSTERFUCK we have now.
It was just waiting in the wings for a group of people with the sheer moxie to seize, ignore, impugn and pillage knowing full well that people with the balls to step up and stop it are of a breed long gone.
This has been a long time in the festering, and now it's here; I think it's "done" - this is how it's going to be from now.
How did we get here? Simple:
- obsession with trivia (sport, fashion, reality-TV, videos)
- the not so secret belief of a large portion of the American public that they will be wealthy "soon" ("Tax cuts for wealthy people are good, 'cos we're gonna get a piece of that purty darned soon"). Yes - this is probably beginning to fade just a tad. ABOUT FUCKING TIME TOO, but it's done its damage
- plain old ignorance and wishful thinking
- primitive visceral hatred of anything different (LGBT, any religion that isn't based on poverty-lovin' brimstone-preachin' self-denial) that even vaguely challenges the dreamy Rockwellian scene that enough people like to keep in their heads
- inbred pigheaded stupidity of the mass that allows themselves to basically be automatons at the polling booth ("gotta keep them [expletive] damned [hate-slur] down")
- a PollyAnna-ish attitude that willfully ignores the realities that have been crashing in for years and years
Forced to pick just two, I'd say
(but that's really just one, isn't it?)
And now it's done. The great democratic experiment hung on the (necessary) razor-edge balance for who knows exactly how long? We all fucked it up by not paying attention, isolating ourselves from our neighbors (house, and countries), allowing greed and fear (however small) to pit us against each other, sat by while elected representatives (HAHAHAHAHA) allowed one miserable scam after another to live on (El Salvador, Chile, Grenada, Iran Contra) rather than take sever, punitive corrective action.
The frog was in the pot, the water was cool. The water slowly boiled, and the putrescent bloated corpse is belly-up and it's on fast-boil.
Here's my promise : if 2 years from today there is a generalized poll in America that shows peoples' hopes are up and things are seen to be improving for the average American, I will post a video of myself eating a handwritten version of this rant in clear view of the camera. And I won't JonahGoldberg my way out of this bet.