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drood points me to this from Mr. Lileks
Got it? If you don't support Bush, you support the violent overthrow of the United States government and you hate jews and you are an apologist for the russian government.
Because, you know, Kerry is the one who is floating a proposal to put the US under martial law in case of a terrorist attack and who is in bed with the saudis and who lends his moral authority to people who commit torture casually if it helps their political goals.
Oh, no, wait, that's Bush.
But, see, if nobody ever disagreed with him, he wouldn't have to do this stuff.
I mean, it's not like he's the kind of guy who amused himself as a child by torturing frogs.
Well, it is, but the liberals probably had something going on with the frogs. We don't know.
shudder.
drood points me to this from Mr. Lileks[gnat banged her head]
I wonder if I’m alone. I love current events and politics,, I’m fascinated to see history roll along before my eyes, and I’m sick to death of it. All of it. I turn on the radio in the morning, and it takes about three minutes before the waddling parade of canards begins.
Here’s a good question to gauge whether you’re sane or not. Which would you prefer: four more years of Bush, or a military coup that put Kerry in power? If it takes you more than 2 seconds to reply, and you follow your answer with any sort of amplification that contains the word “but,” seek help. The other day, for example, I was listening to Medved. He played a clip of Bush stumbling over “abu Ghraib.” Fun with talk radio: find the exact moment in this call to Medved’s show where the people who liked the caller’s point suddenly said “aw, crap.”
“Yeah, why don’t you play Bush trying to pronounced Abu Ghraib over and over again like you played that sound from Howard Dean? You’re such a Zionist hypocrite.”
[not that this, like, excuses anything, but we happen to know that our allies in Russia did really bad stuff to prisoners in Chechnya]
Got it? If you don't support Bush, you support the violent overthrow of the United States government and you hate jews and you are an apologist for the russian government.
Because, you know, Kerry is the one who is floating a proposal to put the US under martial law in case of a terrorist attack and who is in bed with the saudis and who lends his moral authority to people who commit torture casually if it helps their political goals.
Oh, no, wait, that's Bush.
But, see, if nobody ever disagreed with him, he wouldn't have to do this stuff.
I mean, it's not like he's the kind of guy who amused himself as a child by torturing frogs.
Well, it is, but the liberals probably had something going on with the frogs. We don't know.
shudder.
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-28 07:27 am (UTC)How is mocking a Democratic candidate for shouting equivalent to a sitting President being completely unable to pronounce the name for something that has been a huge deal for weeks?
Even more so than many conservative talking heads, Lileks doesn't make sense to me. This is just like the time he found it absurd that someone should envy another country's social structures...
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:34 am (UTC)The trouble he was having looked an awful lot like a man pronouncing a word that was written on a page in front of him and which he'd never heard said out loud.
Now, it seems to me that when your army has been caught committing war crimes and there are calls for the resignation of your SecDef _from Congress_ over it, someone should have in the following two weeks brought it up in a meeting.
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:49 am (UTC)It's not only an amusing sound byte, but a pretty good indicator of how seriously and how well Bush takes his job.
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-28 08:39 am (UTC)It's a shame, because I used to have the Institute of Official Cheer bookmarked. Hell™, I may bookmark it again sometime. If he'd been content to do only stuff like that — nostalgic for 50s kitsch, but with an awareness of its flaws — I'd applaud him. As it is, I can't buy the Gallery of Regrettable Food book because that would subsidize more columns about how, because Noam Chomsky hasn't already been locked up, his criticisms of our government are wholly without factual basis, and because Chomsky was wrong about the Khmer Rouge, he's also wrong about America.
Fuck Lileks. Fuck him completely. I wish I could do as my parents tell me and say "just let it go", but there are too damn many of these people out there, and they all want me dead. (That's one syllogism the 'rents don't seem able to grasp: I am a liberal; these people want all liberals dead; therefore, these people want me dead.)
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Date: 2004-05-28 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-28 12:03 pm (UTC)I like this line. I'm going to spin it in a way I'm sure Lileks never intended. Because, you see, these are our choices. If Bush loses the election he could very easily attempt to continue to occupy the post. Seize emergency powers and insist that we cannot change horses in midstream and all that. Bush is that much of a megalomaniac and cares that little for the rule of law and the will of the people. So indeed, it may well take a coup to put Kerry in the whitehouse if he wins.
Thanks to Mr. Lileks for this insight into the character of the current administration.
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Date: 2004-05-28 01:18 pm (UTC)I’m the son and father of committed Democrats and was a Democrat for two decades before becoming a Republican. I’m now a registered Libertarian.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS ELECTION. Visit and post on:
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Date: 2004-05-29 11:06 am (UTC)