tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post956388870289657232..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: What, Why and Howdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26506640695215037572015-05-17T08:41:38.064-05:002015-05-17T08:41:38.064-05:00I’d argue that when someone pines for “a moderate ...I’d argue that when someone pines for “a moderate Republican savior” what they mean is someone who can achieve the national electoral results of Reagan. Policy-wise they are no different than the guy with the tri-quarter hat and misspelled sign. What Brooks et al. need is someone who can deliver similar victory margins as President Obama did. The mainstream stream media doesn’t want to have to sell another ca. 2000 Supreme Court delivered Republican squeaker. They need some bigger margins to keep the “America rejected Liberalism and is fundamentally Conservative” while the Republican President axes all non-military government spending, privatizes SS and Medicare, starts a war, and outlaws corporate taxation.....in the first 90 days. <br /><br />Don’t get me wrong, Faux News will screech “America has rejected liberalism!,” “Is the Democratic Party Done?” and talk of voter mandates regardless of the margin. But I think Brooks et al. wants something substantive to bring back the Beltway/Manhattan political attitudes of the 1980’s. <br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10830124404306531933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67192179404754929912015-05-16T23:08:31.697-05:002015-05-16T23:08:31.697-05:00I'm going to agree with Geese here. But he is ...I'm going to agree with Geese here. But he is really making the same point as Driftglass. Of course Fox isn't going to swat down the Jade Helm 15 truthers. They get paid to encourage them. But CNN and MSNBC could be calling out the story as "The right is embracing something so delusional it is beyond the pale" instead of "tee hee, look at those wacky Texas people. LOL!" They could be asking John Boehner what the hell is going on with his party. Hey Senator McCain, what have you done to squash this bullshit today? That this does not happen is the real scandal.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21583113201545765572015-05-16T08:27:17.516-05:002015-05-16T08:27:17.516-05:00It's funny because I was thinking about this t...It's funny because I was thinking about this this morning. The GOP has become the "Existential Party" and by that I mean that everything is life or death with them. Anything outside the orthodoxy of extreme RW, white male, fundamentalist christian, Friedmen laissez faire capitalist dogma threatens the very fabric of all we hold dear and must be crushed out of existence. Aided by a MSM that hasn't the courage to tell their corporate masters to go fuck themselves.<br /><br />These two things combined are an actual existential threat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12710348040257922919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3204488416487759322015-05-16T07:01:43.965-05:002015-05-16T07:01:43.965-05:00Geese has a problem with religion?
I have a Q-st...Geese has a problem with religion? <br /><br />I have a Q-style "solution" for him.<br /><br />Invent immortality. <br /><br />Oh, also invent rejuvenation for the people who are already old when he invents immortality. <br /><br />Also, get rid of all other forms of suffering.<br /><br />Anyone who thinks all, or even a majority, of the human species can be persuaded to become Stern Sturdy Stoics, knows even less about human psychology than a creationist knows about human paleontology.<br /><br />Religions will disappear once human beings no longer suffer and die.<br /><br /><b>And. Not. One. Nanosecond. Earlier.</b><br /><br />Selah.Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69280409547118649432015-05-15T23:47:07.315-05:002015-05-15T23:47:07.315-05:00The problem isn't the center, the problem is p...The problem isn't the center, the problem is people don't want to combat "faith".<br /><br />We're a nation where "it's what I believe in and my values" is an acceptable substitute for facts. And it's because we love religion so much.<br /><br />We're not willing to tell this to the bible bangers, we need to start.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-52232306477282521502015-05-15T18:49:45.653-05:002015-05-15T18:49:45.653-05:00If the lobbyists were gone the much of the money w...If the lobbyists were gone the much of the money would go too. One Flyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03772881642197609507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83767131483688758672015-05-15T16:48:04.986-05:002015-05-15T16:48:04.986-05:00No, the only way to alter the tragic trajectory of...<i>No, the only way to alter the tragic trajectory of the status quo is to take down the mainstream media. To make it too personally and professionally painful for them to continue to enable the Conservative hate machine.</i><br /><br />That reminds me of a passage from the famous mega-crossover <i>Undocumented Features</i>, in which the main author's emortal avatar is confronted by a fictional character bent on testing his combat skills:<br /><br /><i>Cassandra Cain had [...] never fought a samurai before, and the impression she'd gathered of them was that they weren't real martial artists - too dependent on their swords. Take his sword out of the equation and the rest would be simple. [...] She might as well have thought that the key to defeating Batman was to deprive him of the use of his hands - probably accurate, but not really as simple as it sounds.</i><br /><br />http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/BC/RBT/rbt2.txt<br /><br />You've identified the problem and the solution, but in terms of the steps to take, I'm also reminded of the moment in the <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> episode "Deja Q" when Q's suggested solution to the problem of Bre'el IV's moon Klyo falling out of its orbit, delivered in the long-suffering tones of one tired of explaining himself to his inferiors, is "Change the gravitational constant of the universe."Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7502469844944750982015-05-15T16:32:24.394-05:002015-05-15T16:32:24.394-05:00Absolutely. Thank you for all your work.Absolutely. Thank you for all your work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10761730694885275268noreply@blogger.com