You know that elderly relative that blurs out racial epithets at Thanksgiving and embarrasses you in front of your girl/boyfriend? Well, over at his "institute," (read: 'assisted living community') Grampa has found something out about his much beloved God-Emperor...and finds it hi-larious! What's the source of gramp's mirth? Pakistani drone attack casualties!
"...what goes on between consenting nation-states within the privacy of their own borders is their own business, and this is just as healthy and loving and beautiful as any diplomatic arrangement."
Grampa - "Teh Funneh!"Because, ya know, eviscerating children with drone-launched Hellfire missiles is a ripe field for comedy. And, hey, remember that picture of the Vietnamese kids running down the road with half their fucking skin burnt off by napalm? Fucking Comedy Gold, man!
And, hey, Gramps even approves of these atrocities! So long as they "get us out" of Afghanistan by 2012, well, Grampa has no problem with this:
Go-'Bama! Go-'Bama! Whooooot!(Update: More hilarity for Grampa and the demotard peanut gallery as the forces of their God-Emperor admit to murdering pregnant women. Wheeee-Ha! Can't wait for his next laugh-packed post!))
Grampa "friended" me on facebook and asked me if I was impressed with his work at his wonderful blog. He spent a lot of time trying to convince me that we need to support the Democrats because "that's the system we have." Such a powerful minimizer!
ReplyDeleteGramps is extremely impressed with himself. He's also got a lot invested in gutlessly toadying to a small audience of feckless fauxgressives. Photoshopping the head of Bill O'Reilly on the body of a a diaper fetishist is Gramp's idea of "activism."
ReplyDeleteLike many liberals The Editors (or Gramps as you call him) feel like the lesser evil is the best they can get so they settle for that. The idea that you might not settle for any evil, lesser or otherwise gets met with the "would you prefer John McCain was running the country?" stock answer. I'm not so sure that there would be that big a difference myself, but reasoning with folks who think that way is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteNobel Peace Prize in action!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::plays air guitar::
ReplyDeleteGramps has invested a lot in the kind of jellyfish lesser-evilism that informs the arguments spewed forth by the moral cretin wing of the Obot Army. But then, Grampa has sucked down enough hopium to drop a mule - so it shouldn't be surprising.
ReplyDeleteDrunk Pundit writes:
ReplyDeleteLike many liberals The Editors (or Gramps as you call him) feel like the lesser evil is the best they can get so they settle for that. The idea that you might not settle for any evil, lesser or otherwise gets met with the "would you prefer John McCain was running the country?" stock answer.
Actually, I thought the idea of McCain and Palin running the country sounded like the best idea in a long time -- and this was during the campaign. Given the choice between Obama's pompous, self-important, shit-don't-stink vibe combined with Biden's proclivity for idiotic Tourette's-like outbursts in the media and McCain's crazy-old-man-who-everyone-laughs at attitude combined with Palin's astoundingly proud stupidity, it was a no-brainer. Four years of McCain and Palin would've sped up the final collapse of America which the rest of the world sorely needs.
Besides, couldn't you imagine how awesome the State Of The Union Address would've been? McCain grumbling a bunch of get-off-my-lawn crap with Palin in the VP's chair, winking at the camera and leaping to her feet like a cheerleader to lead the applause. God damn, but that would've been pure comedy gold.
Mr. Flugennock is clearly a callous piece of unfeeling filth who fails to understand how much worse those little kids would've felt if it had been McCain/Palin blasting off their little faces with my taxpayer-funded explosives.
ReplyDeleteFie on you, Mr. Flugennock. Fie, I say.
Flugennock hits on one of my best arguments for those who say voting third party just empowers the Republicans. If we get really horrible leaders it only raises the consciousness of people to the horrors of our government and creates more enemies of the status quo. Leaders like Obama that give off a suspicion of competence are more dangerous.
ReplyDelete"Leaders like Obama that give off a suspicion of competence are more dangerous."
ReplyDeleteFor sure.
Quite a few people were warning about Barry O'Barmy as soon as he gave that speech at the DNC's convention in 2004, for this very reason. I remember seeing some of Mike's cartoons a while before the 2008 election suggesting this notion; Arthur Silber was suggesting it; I was raising it in comments around the InterWebToobz; others were saying likewise. There was advance warning of this scam to those who knew how to pick up on the relevant signals.
The Legion of Sisyphus is what we should call ourselves. We still have to push the boulder uphill, and while the hill is getting smaller as more people wake up to the reality of The Obamessiah, it's still an uphill battle.
I just wonder whether I'm gonna flee the country before the hill gets graded flat.
fwoan:
ReplyDelete...If we get really horrible leaders it only raises the consciousness of people to the horrors of our government and creates more enemies of the status quo...
Really? From where I'm sitting, there are no new enemies being created. It's the same old fearmongering yammer about the same old scaaaaaareeee conservative pundits all the time, the same old dogged avoidance of exploring even mild alternatives to the Red/Blue party monolith, the same old vacuous excuses and saccharine paens offered to yet another repulsive, plastic liberal figurehead because he looks and sounds good. Etc.
I'd like to be wrong, but I just don't see the evidence that I am.
Legion of Sisyphus. Me happy, now.
ReplyDeleteC.F. Oxtrot writes:
ReplyDeleteI just wonder whether I'm gonna flee the country before the hill gets graded flat...
Well, the current plan that the DW and I have is to retire to Puerto Vallarta as soon as I'm old enough (she's about ten years older than I, and retired in '08). This is slightly complicated by the arrival of a grandbaby about a year and a half ago, but we're still trying to keep our eyes on the prize.
My personal dream is to be kicking back in my favorite little jazz joint on Los Muertos Beach, sneaking a joint and sucking down two-for-one tequilas at sunset while watching America collapse on TV until I get bored and ask the bartender to put the soccer game back on (or until it's time for Paco's first set).
With any luck, when this whole shithouse finally crumbles, I'll be old enough to be comfortably retired to Mexico and yet still young enough to enjoy watching the whole sick spectacle from a safe distance.
Hey, Mike. Let me know if you'll be hiring anyone to muck out the birdbaths and trim the hedges.
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ms. xeno, I'm one. My consciousness was raised by events of the past couple of years causing me to go to the left of "liberal."
ReplyDeleteI wonder how "Grampa" would feel if Pakistan and the US "consented" to bomb his house...because for all one knows a potential terrorist-insurgent-combatant might be hold-up there.
ReplyDeletefwoan writes:
ReplyDeletems. xeno, I'm one. My consciousness was raised by events of the past couple of years causing me to go to the left of "liberal."
I've always been fairly to the left of Liberal; then, after viewing footage of the police in Seattle during the '99 WTO protests pushed me pretty much all the way to "anarchist", and pegged the meter so hard it damn' near broke the needle.
It ain't hard to go left of liberal. That would make one a centrist.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the right/left paradigm is useless, because it's only 2-dimensional and the world has at least 3 dimensions. In every left/right scale I've seen, the whole spectrum wants a nanny state, they just argue over which gang of thugs gets to run it -- the capitalists, or the Marxists.
In this corner, weighing in at 72 lbs of sinewy pure capital... the dessicated mummified corpse of Ayn Rand!
ReplyDeleteAnd in the other corner, weighing in at 3,267,841,370,841 metric tons... the baron of bloat, the regent of redundancy, his communal highness deepness and broadness... the one, the many, the all... Marcus Leninus Pluribus Stadius!