Showing posts with label Get Your Election On. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Get Your Election On. Show all posts

Monday, February 16, 2026

For Your Friend Who Does Not Understand How Elections Work

Feel free to pass this along to any fellow travelers who were members in good standing of [Insert "You Must Be Fucking Kidding Me" Group Identity Label Here] For Trump" and ask them to pay special attention to Kaspar Gutman's warning: 

That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both sides. Because, as you know, sir, in the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.

Because boy howdy did they fuck around and boy howdy are they finding out...and boy howdy didn't their collectively follies end up dragging the rest of us (and the legacy of the Enlightenment) to hell with them.  

Reminder:  Primaries are where you pick your favorite candidate, preferably without heaping so much "I saw my opponent consorting with the Devil behind the barn" invective on your opponent(s) that, if they win, you've succeeded in damaged them so severely that you hand the election to the opposition.  This is called "Reaganing Ford".     

The general election, in the other hand, is where you vote out the fascists -- enthusiastically and without bitching -- even if your primary pony ran out of the money,


I Am The Liberal Media

Monday, April 26, 2021

Get Your Internecine War On


(Concept lifted from David Rees' brilliant, Bush-era "Get Your War On" series -- a well from which I may continue to draw inspiration from time to time as the crazy goes on.)


No Half Measures



Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Get Your Election On: A Convention Remembered



(Concept lifted from David Rees' brilliant, Bush-era "Get Your War On" series -- a well from which I may continue to draw inspiration from time to time as the crazy continues to grow exponentially.)




No Half Measures