Saturday, December 1, 2012

One Year Ago Today

the way things are geared here

is the newt going to be mittens's dragon?  will romney inspire the nation with gingrich's spleen?  since rick perry didn't amount to much of a nemesis, could that miserable fucker gingrich finally be the way that romney proves he's a better man than al gore?  if mitt is able to disembowel gingrich in front of the entire repbulican primary audience, then he could be cementing his victory.  if for some reason newt is too tough to handle, well, then romney's no better than al gore.  

all the lovely things will come together this time

al sharpton is quickly becoming a modern-day paul krugman.  much as krugman started out as a neoliberal technocrat but grew into a well-informed crusader for sanity, sharpton has now outgrown his humble tee vee personality beginnings and is quickly becoming one of the most useful commentators on cable news.  sharpton is shameless obama fluffer, but he defends his views and shows more courage of conviction than a thousand tweeties or larry o'donnels.  he cock-punched gingrich over and over during the dinner hour tonight; president obama would be well-served with a tenth of sharpton's clarity and personality.  sharpton has also been constantly talking up the ongoing republican voter suppression campaign.  this is good work.  it almost makes cable news worth the effort.

robert fisk uses history

very few native english speakers understand the situation on top of our oil as well as robert fisk.  iran has an especially colorful history of western involvement, highlighted by the united states destroying iranian democracy in 1953.  we really can't stop ourselves from fucking these dumps up over and over.  if you know the history as well as mr. fisk does, it is hard to see western powers as innocent victims or champions of freedom, though. 

santa should bring iran a nuke

the best thing that could happen for the world would be if santa brought iran a shiny new nuclear weapon.  countries with nuclear weapons don't get bombed back to the stone age.  north korea is safe and happy in its silly little world, but iraq and libya are steaming piles of shit because they didn't have the very fashionable and scary nuclear weapons.  if the united states or israel or one of those other fuckers decides to bomb iran, lots of innocent people will suffer for no good reason.  the first duty of every leader of every crappy little country--especially one that lives on top of america's god-given oil--is to get a nuclear weapon so that the united states and nato will not attack you.  for shitty third-world countries, nuclear weapons are the best life-saving social programs ever devised. 

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