This is from me back in 2009 documenting the massive Republican "Escape Accountability" rebranding scheme that began immediately after the collapse of the Bush Administration. This is an analogy I have repeated literally hundreds of times in the decade since:
And this is blue-check Republican strategist and frequent MSNBC guest Mike Murphy two days ago being interviewed (along with blue-check Republican strategist and frequent MSNBC guest Stuart Stevens) by MSNBC correspondent John Heilemann on his "Hell & High Water" podcast:...Most newly minted “independents” seem to be little more than Republicans who are fleeing the scene of their crime, but at the same time still desperately want believe in the inerrant wisdom of Rush Limbaugh. They are completely incapable of facing the horrifying reality that they have gotten every single major political opinion and decision of their adult lives completely wrong, so instead they double-down on their hatred of women and/or gays and/or brown people and/or Liberals, and blame them for the miserable fuckpit their leaders and their policies have made of their lives and futures.
Like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin, they have stopped running away from the catastrophe they created only long enough to burn their uniforms.
But they fool no one.
Except, apparently, David Fucking Brooks.
Murphy: ...the problem is with these Vichy Republicans, and I agree about the cowardice. You know it's not like we were asking them to land on Anzio beach. We were just asking them to be Republicans, or, what we had been.So the cowards are gonna be back, and it's gonna be like Germany after the war. All of the sudden the head of the West Berlin police, you remember him from the rally, you know, different uniform, same guy. And a lot of the same gutless dregs in the party who've been part of this looking the other way but secretly with us all along are gonna be back.
Funny old world where seemingly everything I write eventually comes blabbing, without attribution, out of the mouths of same highly-paid professional Republican hit men who have spent their entire adult lives shitting all over everything I believe in.
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Turns out making Bluto Blutarski President of the United States makes for a great situational comedy but is a fucking catastrophe in the real world. Quelle fucking surprise!
It was all Animal House for these Lincoln Project fuckers. They could rape and pillage and have all the toga parties they wanted. They could unzip their flys on teevee and everyone would laugh. They would talk about shooting up the DNC, gangasta style, and everyone would get the joke. It was Cosplay Fascism and you know what? It was fucking hysterical.
Then the pledges took over the party. The Flounders, the Blutos, the Pintos. They didn't quite get the joke. Didn't really know their Niebhur from Neighbor. Their Burke from their Bork. They 100% believed the shit we were saying! And hey, in our defense, that was funny in its own way. I mean, we just made a bet about who would be the first to seek David Duke's endorsement. It wasn't serious!
And now, five years later, in the midst of a pandemic and calamity and corruption, they're trying to pull back their buddies from going full Nazi. It was a joke! It was just designed to get votes! We don't REALLY want to overturn Roe, and alienate every female voter, and we don't REALLY want to overturn Obergfell, and alienate every LBGTQ person in existence, and we don't REALLY want to insult and demean every immigrant, Jew, African-American, Muslim-American, Latinix, people who need healthcare, unemployed person, teacher, firefighter, social worker, healthcare employee, doctor, nurse, food service worker, veteran, journalist, and government employee!
It was just a joke!
Many of these big thinkers are still plagiarizing Mein Kampf
As it turns out North Korean Dictator King Jong Un has no writings they can glob onto.
"Cancel Culture" mysteriously ghosts on hitting the oh-so-soft target of post-neocon creeps boosting left-wing tropes & memes as if collecting 1,000 in a row will make them immortals ... not one teeny tiny firing to be found?
Or one solitary hollow editorial tut-tut?
Huh.
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