With this Tweet?
Or the article that prompted it? (with emphasis added.)The intellectual decline of the GOP is astonishing, especially when your remember how different it was just 15 or 20 years ago. https://t.co/HeNz6rjhKy— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 2, 2020
Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good
There is no going back.
by William Kristol, April 2, 2020 1:04 PM
...I don’t see how either the political institution of the Republican party or the intellectual movement of conservatism recovers from what we have seen over the last three years—but especially the last three months.
This is their lifeboat, painted, trimmed and ready to sail.
As you all know, I have written literally thousands of posts about both Kristol and Brooks over the past 15 years, but at this moment the sheer grandeur of their lies -- the Trump-like scale of them -- robs me of my words.
Maybe I'll come back to this later, but for the moment...
Never Again Is What You Swore
The Time Before
The Time Before
5 comments:
"The intellectual decline of the GOP is astonishing, especially when your remember how different it was just 15 or 20 years ago."
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!
No...let me laugh even HARDER!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Davey boy, you're a feckin' maroon. We LAUGH at you, dude. Out loud. With derision. And malice, even! You're a clown. Just walk away, man. No one takes you seriously. We know better. For real...beat it. Get outta here before we beat yr ass. Final warning.
Ah, yes, the tried-and-true "Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed" excuse. Why anyone even bothers to listen to Kristol and Brooks anymore is beyond me.
Well, fwiw...
A voice someone noted said today the GOP breaks apart -- * poof *-- vanishes next year, come hell (Temp) or high water (Biden?).
Link:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/the-republican-party-is-done-ex-gop-lawmaker-predicts-the-party-will-end-after-2020-election/
As a cosmic co-inky-dink the planet Neptune is aligned today with the same star where it was aligned when the GOP was begun, or Whigs ended -- whichever way you want to look at it, same same; the fetid Whig detritus hatched Republicans.
That was 1855, say. Neptune takes 165 years to go around once, I think. So this is its first time back to the mark.
(Extra credit: 1855 minus 165 is 1690 marking when Whigs began, say.)
I do love that the Photoshop image is Trump 'on the left' and Truman 'on the right.'
While I have never really cared much for Harry Truman - you know, a-bomb-dropping is a deal-breaker for me - he DID at least Accept the idea that 'The Buck Stops Here.' Every Republican SINCE Truman has told us clearly that that buck might be stopping, but it is certainly stopping somewhere else. Not at the Resolute Desk. Not in the Rose Garden. Probably somewhere on Chicago's Southside, or East LA or those scary places in NYC that aren't on islands or comprised of concrete, glass and steel high-rises. Those are good places for bucks to stop.
Yes, I include Ike Eisenhower who gave us Dick Nixon as a national figure.
"Plausible Deniability" is the Republican philosophy - the buck stopping somewhere else is all they have.
And these days, 'plausible' is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting.
It is almost as if the sentinels in the media and the press are confusing 'plausible' with 'possible,' 'credible' with 'Incredible' and 'credulous.'
It is possible that I will have the best rookie season ever as a Yankees DH the year I turn 50. Just that it has never happened, and I have never been a power hitter, and haven't played an organized game of baseball since 1992 - well - with 4 years of training, and regular therapy on a weak left shoulder, and I live in a country without baseball diamonds, equipment or trainers . . . anything is possible. David Brooks will take that bet. In fact, that is his bet.
Yes, I am not a crackpot. Everybody should take this seriously.
Until next week, when I am going to be the best-ever, rookie starting point guard for the LA Lakers the year I turn 50 . . . at 5'6", 190 pounds with no jump shot or ball-handling skills.
Anything is possible which means that everything is plausible.
From the Arctic Socialist Hellscape of Brown Cheese and Waffles -
Yrs,
JTO
Post a Comment