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I Learned From The Master
There’s an old quotation that American Republicans seem rather fond of: “It is better to rule in Hell than serve soft ice cream to precious snowflakes who want to take away your guns and use Critical Race Theory to indoctrinate your children to hate their own whiteness!” Former President Donald Trump may have paraphrased the original saying. He does that. He’s a paraphraser. When he was young and forgot the words to the national anthem, he would make up his own. His father was rich, so nobody corrected him when he started singing about “the rocket’s red bears” and “gave poof to the right that the hag was still hairy.”
That explains a lot. Unless it explains nothing. The former President’s personal history can be inscrutable that way.
Note that Trump has gone from denying that COVID existed to admitting that it existed, but insisting that it wasn’t that bad to arguing that, okay, maybe it is pretty bad, but vaccines don’t work (try bleach, the quickest way to solve all your problems!) to they’re keeping vaccines away from white people because…reasons. The fact that he missed a step (you know, the one where he allows that vaccines do work) is a tribute to how much he values the intelligence of members of his base.
Why the latest pronouncement? Somebody must have taken Trump aside and told him that killing off members of his base was a bad way of winning elections. And you know what the leader of the deplorable world always says: “When you’re in a tight race, make racism!”
I may be paraphrasing a little.
SOURCE: Karl’s Big Red Web Page of Unreconstructed Marxism
[http://www.bigred.commie/articles/218^.htm]
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Except For A Maskless Justice Neil Gorsuch, Who Has A Tattoo That Reads: “The Most Deadly Virus In A Century? Bring It On!”
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandate that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees get vaccinated or submit a negative COVID test weekly before being allowed to enter the workplace. At the same time, they required lawyers who had been diagnosed with COVID to make their arguments remotely, because goodness knows they didn’t want that danger in their workplace!
The Absurd Ironyometer wouldn’t want to argue with the Supreme Court – even though that’s their basic function – but it didn’t feel it could let this – wait, was that…a tickle in its throat? And that cough – was it just something that went down the wrong way, or…? Did somebody turn up the heat in the room, because it’s feeling awfully ho – oh, no! It couldn’t be! The Hypocrisy Leader Board was looking really rough the other day – could it have passed the virus on to the Absurd Ironyometer when they were working in adjacent cubicles the other day?
If only there were rules to prevent things like that from happening!
SOURCE: Big Alex’ Domesday Countdown Page
[http://www.allaboutalex.wha/Domesday/new]
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McConnell Would Later Say That It Was A Slip Of The Tongue
Makes Sense: Everybody Knows Turtles Speak So Quickly Their Mouths Move Faster Than Their Brains!
“The concern (over Republican voter suppression tactics) is misplaced because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
– Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell
SOURCE: No Comment Quotes
[http://thesepeopleareinsane.psy/update.toshtml]
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe!
COUNTDOWN TO DICTATORSHIP: 3) What is the main difference between Democrat Joe Manchin and a Republican, any Republican?
a) when Republicans negotiate in bad faith in order to stall legislation for months before finally voting en masse against it, they are motivated by a need to please their donors and to deny the opposition party a victory; when Joe Manchin negotiates in bad faith in order to stall legislation for months before finally voting against it, he is motivated by a need to please his donors (denying his own party a victory – those sanctimonious pricks! – is just a bonus)
b) Senate Democrats were onto the Republican tactic of negotiating in bad faith to stall legislation for months; they were not expecting the tactic to be used by one of their own – surprise!
c) Republicans don’t have to worry about their voters because they know their base will support them whatever they do; Manchin knows his voters better than anybody else in Washington, and he knows that, more than anything, they want to be relieved of the burden of voting
2) What is the main difference between Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin?
a) Sinema doesn’t negotiate with anybody (except her donors, and then only on how much her vote is worth)
b) Sinema looks better in a dress
c) Sinema has never bothered to justify her betrayal of her party (and the country) to the press (she wouldn’t want to get nasty ink all over that dress)
1) Which of the following tactics will have the distinction of finally ending the American democratic experiment?
a) “alternate” slates of Republican electors showing up in Washington one morning fraudulently claiming that the baby Cheeses gave them the authority to choose the President
b) Republican states deciding that they have the authority – nay, the responsibility to throw out the result of an election and choose the candidate they know in their hearts won
c) the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from the Republicans, which excuses their authoritarian excesses better than any blessing from the baby Cheeses
d) when so many things are going wrong at once, who can choose just one? All of the above
SOURCE: Les Pages aux Folles
[http://www.lespagesauxfolles.ca]
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