Kind of a weird argument to make for a person who regularly performs as Tucker Carlson's affirming sidekick. It's ok to agree with Carlson on stuff, but not Kristol or Boot? https://t.co/OoYoYElPbw— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) February 17, 2019
No comment at all.
Except, perhaps, to note that all of these people operate from a position of aloof and unearned privilege, and none of them really give a shit about the real, day-to-day hopes and fears of anyone I know.
Also (and for the record) it is quite possible that I may be the only blogger in Christendom on record as advocating that Kristol and Boot and Carlson and Greenwald should all be welded into an oil drum and fired into space.
Behold, my Twitter Legal Defense Fund!
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And you were 100% right about them, Driftglass.
As for the barrel idea...if you can't fire it into space, you can always sink it into the deepest part of the Marianas Trench.
The sad remnants of the flying monkey squad have an excuse for this - some variant on Well, Greenwald is reaching out to unconventional allies, not kissing up to Iraq War sellouts. It tells the story, I think. Greenwald clearly has a lot of nostalgia for the years when George W. Bush was the devil and Greenwald got to be this messianic hero figure. The line in the sand is not what you're doing now, but what you did fifteen years ago. Carlson was around back then but he was a nobody then.
Ironically, this means that he's likely to be more friendly with the more repulsive members of the modern right because they were so distasteful in the before times. The fact that Carlson is such an amazing racist that he's probably the only American with strong negative opinions about the Romani, of all groups, makes him more trustworthy.
(That's the complicated explanation, of course; the simpler one is that his paymaster is in bed with Putin so Greenwald is obliged to buddy with anyone who's pro-Trump, but that can't be the case - why, he's the Only Consistent Man in American Politics!)
I would just take sending the barrel over Niagara falls.
I remember admiring Greenwald until his wheels fell off sometime during the Dubya administration. I keep racking my brain trying to remember his triggering post. Help! Did it have to do with the Plame scandal? Anyway, I'm trying to reach you to get you to look at this great image from c. 1900 from a New Orleans label printing company. It's appropriate for these times, IMO.
Koo-Koo
BTW, I have looooved your graphics for ages. If you want to use that Koo-Koo image (free, of course), you know how to find me.
Must point out a flaw in your suggested solution;
Stuffed in a barrel sent into space. May not prevent them from Tweeting from space.
From some pest control experience may I advance, placing out Roach motels.
As the motels become duly occupied. Put them in the barrel(s) and not just sent into space. But use them to send to Venus, Mercury or even to the sun. As experiment to understand the adverse conditions on insects as cockroaches in hostile environments and what that insect survival rate would be in varied degrees on humans.
Furthering scientific knowledge could be advanced.
"The fact that Carlson is such an amazing racist that he's probably the only American with strong negative opinions about the Romani, of all groups, makes him more trustworthy."
I found this strangely repulsive. Here in the United States we have few Romanche, and they do not generally seem to bring out the level of hatred here that comes to the fore in Europe. Among those Europeans that I have known before that hatred of the Romanche (they call them Gypsies, at best) burns hot and bright in a way I have never seen before.
A special focus and dislike of one particular out group is generally a precursor of a willingness to do such terrible things to all of ones "enemies".
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