Watching the Republican debate is like watching a beauty contest with nothing but ugly around. I should preface my comments by saying I’m a registered Republican (there, the cat’s out of the back) but, I would imagine those who fall lockstep in with the party line would call me a RINO.
There’s a great subtext that goes on in these things at least on the Republican side..;
And part of that is intoned by the endless repeating of the same platitudes over and over and over again and again.
I will make America strong!
This is somewhat silly to me. Are we a weak nation? Last time I checked we weren’t, did something happen and I missed it? Usually making America strong involves lots and lots of military spending. As a matter of fact, among the 14 or so people who trotted out onto a stage built in front of an old airplane, I don’t think there was nary a one who saw any kind of military spending they didn’t like. You almost get a sense that there is something sexual in nature to this obsession with the military. As if it bestows an immediate woody (or a gush in the case of one candidate), the mere thought of being able to spend, spend spend to build up an army.
But, then again, these are the same fuckers who conducted a war over the last decade and then did everything in their power to cut the funding to the VA’s around the country. You’ve got to love that kind of blatant hypocrisy - that takes true balls.
Oh and lest I forget the same people who are ready to have us send young people of this country (mainly black and brown) are not sending their own sons and daughters. Even if I don’t have kids I feel like that deserves a big Fuck You.
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
The whole jobs thing is usually wrapped around the gem of government deregulation.
Stupid government! You just need to get out of the way of business!
We don’t need a higher minimum wage! We don’t need a progressive tax rate! We just need government to stop regulating business!
Um... guys? I’m thinking of the last few Republican administrations and back in the eighties (under that stalwart and elevated to almost godlike proportions Ronald Reagan) we had this thing called the Savings and Loan crisis? You may not realize it but it cost the American taxpayer $160 BILLION DOLLARS to cover the cost of your little experiment in deregulation. I’m sure a lot of your pals got rich but it wasn’t fun for the rest of us to be left holding the bag.
Oh and then on Bush Jr’s watch we had the great recession, again the result of deregulation and the advent of people getting rich off of mortgage backed securities. That one cost us 12.8 TRILLION!
Maybe government shouldn’t be so ready to surrender the reins to business when it comes to guiding the economy? And if you’re talking about jobs, jobs, jobs, how come not a single one of you talked about federal spending to shore up the aging infrastructure in this country? It impacts out economy in a slew of ways but none of you seem to want to talk about spending on that as opposed to military spending
I will let you take my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
How many more people need to die in this country from gun violence before you get serious about gun regulation? People want to hunt? Hey, more power to them! I’m a city kid so I never grew up with that but for hunting you use a rifle not a handgun, no?
Isn’t it about time we start looking more at where guns are going? From the second they leave the factory? Background checks are all fine and good but what about secondary markets? What about assault weapons?
You want to hunt sure thing... I’ve got to take a course and a test to drive, I’ve got to get insurance to own a car, I’ve got to register my vehicle annually and get it inspected. Seems to me putting the same kind of framework in place for weapons wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Abortion!
You know... I was talking to someone about this the other day. This whole dialog about abortion is a bit of a joke. I’m a man, I’m not crazy about abortion but I really don’t feel I have the right to tell a woman what to do (maybe we need to shove a bowling ball up a couple of men’s asses so they get a sense of what childbirth is like).
But, let’s go further here for one second... abortion is a young people’s issue or poor people’s issue.
Old people don’t fuck. And if they do fuck, it’s not like they are looking to get abortions. As a matter of fact there are a lot of women that I’ve run across over the age of 35 or so who were desperate to have a baby and went to great lengths (some successful some not so) to bring a baby to term.
So that leaves young people and let me tell you, if Suzy Creamcheese comes up pregnant and she is a member of the lily white, country club set - dealing with her delicate condition isn’t much of a bother. Money kind of helps things along.
And that leaves us with poor people so we don’t want any shortage of them to exploit and violá! Anti-abortionists!
Everything else built up around this, abortion in cases of rape, blah, blah, blah... all smoke and mirrors around this crap.
Anyway those are the four biggies... I’m not missing some. There are some I kind of agree with but there are a lot of others that are just more of the same laughable platitudes trotted out every four years.
Watching these ninnies though parade around on stage is a bit insulting to one’s intelligence.
Especially watching them talk about specific justices on the Supreme Court. Last time I checked there were three branches of government and they were set up the way they were for a reason. It seems to work for the most part.
There were a couple of moments when I just cringed it was so painful (Carly Fiorina plays the Sarah Palin card in that she can recite the Pledge of Allegiance) and then there were a couple of moments when I was surprised (Ron Paul actually nailed a few on both his stance on legal marijuana and also on use of the military). Jeb Bush proved that three times likely isn’t the charm. Marco Rubio underlined just how dysfunctional Washington is very much a no show job (umm... let’s see you were a Senator in absence and so we should reward you and make you President?). Scott Walker wants to bring back the good old days... Calvin Coolidge will be pleased.
Man... the thought of suffering through another 14 months of this though is just painful.
There’s a great subtext that goes on in these things at least on the Republican side..;
And part of that is intoned by the endless repeating of the same platitudes over and over and over again and again.
First:
I will make America strong!
This is somewhat silly to me. Are we a weak nation? Last time I checked we weren’t, did something happen and I missed it? Usually making America strong involves lots and lots of military spending. As a matter of fact, among the 14 or so people who trotted out onto a stage built in front of an old airplane, I don’t think there was nary a one who saw any kind of military spending they didn’t like. You almost get a sense that there is something sexual in nature to this obsession with the military. As if it bestows an immediate woody (or a gush in the case of one candidate), the mere thought of being able to spend, spend spend to build up an army.
But, then again, these are the same fuckers who conducted a war over the last decade and then did everything in their power to cut the funding to the VA’s around the country. You’ve got to love that kind of blatant hypocrisy - that takes true balls.
Oh and lest I forget the same people who are ready to have us send young people of this country (mainly black and brown) are not sending their own sons and daughters. Even if I don’t have kids I feel like that deserves a big Fuck You.
Second:
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
The whole jobs thing is usually wrapped around the gem of government deregulation.
Stupid government! You just need to get out of the way of business!
We don’t need a higher minimum wage! We don’t need a progressive tax rate! We just need government to stop regulating business!
Um... guys? I’m thinking of the last few Republican administrations and back in the eighties (under that stalwart and elevated to almost godlike proportions Ronald Reagan) we had this thing called the Savings and Loan crisis? You may not realize it but it cost the American taxpayer $160 BILLION DOLLARS to cover the cost of your little experiment in deregulation. I’m sure a lot of your pals got rich but it wasn’t fun for the rest of us to be left holding the bag.
Oh and then on Bush Jr’s watch we had the great recession, again the result of deregulation and the advent of people getting rich off of mortgage backed securities. That one cost us 12.8 TRILLION!
Maybe government shouldn’t be so ready to surrender the reins to business when it comes to guiding the economy? And if you’re talking about jobs, jobs, jobs, how come not a single one of you talked about federal spending to shore up the aging infrastructure in this country? It impacts out economy in a slew of ways but none of you seem to want to talk about spending on that as opposed to military spending
Third:
I will let you take my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
How many more people need to die in this country from gun violence before you get serious about gun regulation? People want to hunt? Hey, more power to them! I’m a city kid so I never grew up with that but for hunting you use a rifle not a handgun, no?
Isn’t it about time we start looking more at where guns are going? From the second they leave the factory? Background checks are all fine and good but what about secondary markets? What about assault weapons?
You want to hunt sure thing... I’ve got to take a course and a test to drive, I’ve got to get insurance to own a car, I’ve got to register my vehicle annually and get it inspected. Seems to me putting the same kind of framework in place for weapons wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Fourth:
Abortion!
You know... I was talking to someone about this the other day. This whole dialog about abortion is a bit of a joke. I’m a man, I’m not crazy about abortion but I really don’t feel I have the right to tell a woman what to do (maybe we need to shove a bowling ball up a couple of men’s asses so they get a sense of what childbirth is like).
But, let’s go further here for one second... abortion is a young people’s issue or poor people’s issue.
Old people don’t fuck. And if they do fuck, it’s not like they are looking to get abortions. As a matter of fact there are a lot of women that I’ve run across over the age of 35 or so who were desperate to have a baby and went to great lengths (some successful some not so) to bring a baby to term.
So that leaves young people and let me tell you, if Suzy Creamcheese comes up pregnant and she is a member of the lily white, country club set - dealing with her delicate condition isn’t much of a bother. Money kind of helps things along.
And that leaves us with poor people so we don’t want any shortage of them to exploit and violá! Anti-abortionists!
Everything else built up around this, abortion in cases of rape, blah, blah, blah... all smoke and mirrors around this crap.
Anyway those are the four biggies... I’m not missing some. There are some I kind of agree with but there are a lot of others that are just more of the same laughable platitudes trotted out every four years.
Watching these ninnies though parade around on stage is a bit insulting to one’s intelligence.
Especially watching them talk about specific justices on the Supreme Court. Last time I checked there were three branches of government and they were set up the way they were for a reason. It seems to work for the most part.
There were a couple of moments when I just cringed it was so painful (Carly Fiorina plays the Sarah Palin card in that she can recite the Pledge of Allegiance) and then there were a couple of moments when I was surprised (Ron Paul actually nailed a few on both his stance on legal marijuana and also on use of the military). Jeb Bush proved that three times likely isn’t the charm. Marco Rubio underlined just how dysfunctional Washington is very much a no show job (umm... let’s see you were a Senator in absence and so we should reward you and make you President?). Scott Walker wants to bring back the good old days... Calvin Coolidge will be pleased.
Man... the thought of suffering through another 14 months of this though is just painful.
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