Vote arsewipe
"Vote for me, I'm a fuckhead."In anything approaching a sane world, this man would have no chance, none whatsoever, of being elected leader of the most powerful state. His only appeal is that he gives less of a fuck about other human beings than the other candidates (with the exception of Rudy, who, although painted as a "social liberal" because he doesn't think women should be denied the right to choose what to do with their own bodies, is a fascist).
There's some debate, largely sparked by Al Gore's recent book, over whether Americans are morons. Well, of course they are, but I don't think they're any more moronic than anyone else. Take a look at Australia, for example. The Liberals (cunningly called that despite being our conservative party) stood on a platform that the first thing they would do was introduce workplace legislation that would make it easier to sack workers without reason. Those who don't think turkeys can be convinced to vote for Christmas would be well advised to check out the last election here because the Liberals are strongly supported by working people. Like all good rightists, the Liberals appeal to the masses' racism and fear, which generally overcome the plain fact that they have the intention of fucking the masses as soon as they get their hands on power.
No, I don't think that Americans are bigger morons than the rest of us. They are on balance horrible though. They worship militarism, are jingoists, indulge themselves in shocking greed as though it was their birthright, hate other cultures and other peoples with a vehemence that shocks those of us from more tolerant places, believe everyone should have a gun and be willing to shoot others with it, half of them hate women sufficiently not to want them to be permitted to control their own reproduction and hate gays even more, so much so that they want to constitute their nation as a place in which gays cannot be married, and don't let's go into the half of the nation -- half the fucking population! -- who think atheists have made up evolution just to piss them off. One could go on but it makes me feel a bit ill to think about how ugly they are. (Spare me the comments about how nasty I am to be so anti-American -- you guys have been buying the hatred for many years, wearing out your credit from WW2 and your being founded on Enlightenment principles, which you are betraying with barely a fight.)
I know it is not all of them, but it is enough of them that a squeaking stuffed turd like Fred Thompson genuinely feels he has a chance of becoming president. It's not a surprise; after all, when asked whether they "believed" in evolution -- a demonstrable fact, not an item of faith -- some of the Repugnicunt candidates raised their hands to say no. Actually, fuck it, I take it back. Whatever I think of Americans, clearly the likes of Sam Brownback think they are moron enough to vote for a man who doesn't "believe" in science.
posted by Dr Zen @ 9:35 pm
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Bravo!
James Wolcott recently wrote about the role of YouTube in the U.S. '08s wherein he says:
"Another worry would be if Fred Thompson lumbered into the race. After five seasons of ponderously digesting his dialogue as the southern-fried district attorney on Law & Order, this actor-politician knows what it's like to live his life before the camera and drop bits of nourishment down viewers' beaks. Being on the tube is second nature for him—this big lug couldn't be more tubular. But Thompson also behaves as if he's grumpily used to having his own way and isn't about to change, and with the rise of YouTube, nobody gets to have his own, exclusive way. When everyone in the audience is a potential auteurist, prepare to kiss your autonomy good-bye. So bring him on."
Apparently it's not hopeless. It is (and will always be) far too soon to be living under another administration led by an actor.
Why Fred Thompson and the gang are must-see-web-tv
check out: The Wrong Party.
it's a new, totally non-political, political party.
and it's now fielding presidential candidiates for the 2008 US election.
feel free to nominate someone over in mw.
ideally, a candidate must be wrong about everything.
(except for the one thing that they're currently not wrong about -- at any given moment).
i mean, since the lower-their-expectations strategy has been so successful in the past, why fuck around, right?
Americans "hate other cultures and other peoples with a vehemence that shocks those of us from more tolerant places"
An interesting thought from someone who comes from a culture that came up with the term "white man's burden", whose empire was so vast that the sun never sat on it just a little over a half century ago, whose colonial rapes many nations are still struggling to overcome, and which still has plenty of people like our anonymous friend from the "Not original or interesting" post.
I think you're closer to the truth when you say that we're all morons. Statistics are misleading: If you'd want to have a result that says "68% of Americans do not believe that kittens are adorable", you'd be able to find a poll that could accommodate. As far as the presidential candidates go, it's the crazy ones that you can have the best drinking games for.
We changed.
People can. Yes, we have plenty of haters, but we're not in your league. You don't need to defend America or Americans though. No one is saying you are on the mean. It's not personal.
Besides, you need to be clearer that the common people did not have an empire. They had fuck all, mostly. Most Americans do not benefit a great deal from the war in Iraq either, of course (arguably, most Americans are losing out because the money spent on it has a huge opportunity cost socially). I do not feel guilty or ashamed about what Britain did. I didn't do it; my people didn't do it. The ills of yesterday are nothing to do with me. The ills of today are another story though, and of course, as I often say, that they are sometimes outcomes of past ills shouldn't be forgotten too quickly either (so I am not saying oh well, never mind that we had an empire and people still suffer from the effects: I say, I will support fixing the effects but I do not bear responsibility for them).
I too do not believe that sins of the fathers carry on to the sons. The sons are unfortunately left to deal with the consequences.
The current polls show that 78% of Americans currently do not approve of the war in Iraq. Those of us who were there form the start are saying, "what took you so long?" It is beyond frustrating that we've become so insulated that even Sindy Sheehan stopped her anti-war protest allegedly because Americans care more about American Idol than the fact that people are dying in their name. Last time America got so careless, it took a great depression to slap it back to reality. I don't think another one is entirely out of question, either, because the way that this administration squandered every bit of political and economic wealth it had inherited is certainly quite devastating.
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