from paul krugman: strange bush

Above: Artist's rendering of  former president and
brother of Jeb Shrub, sans human skin costume.

don't know much about history, jeb bush edition - From The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com 

Too much strange not to share this:
The erstwhile front-runner tries to get things in order:
"By hiring Mr. Diaz, Mr. Bush wanted to send a clear signal that “the culture of the Bush operation will now be a Pickett’s Charge engagement campaign with his main opponents,” according to one Bush ally."
Hmm. Pickett’s Charge is not exactly something you want to emulate …
I find myself thinking about an incident from a while back, where Jeb invoked the spirit of a “mystic warrior':
After more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House chamber last week and told a short story about “unleashing Chang,” his “mystical warrior” friend.
Here are Bush’s words, spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians: ”Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.
”I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.”
[italics & bold mine - drt] How was he to know that “unleashing Chiang” was about landing Kuomintang troops on the mainland, where they would have been slaughtered? (Maybe that Pickett comparison isn’t so off after all.)

One hella' strange Shrub.

#shrubya, jeb_son_of_shrubya, #jebbush, #herewegoagain 

fuck you, jon stewart, sweet and slowly, one more time, one last time

fuck you, jon stewart, sweet and slowly, one more time, one last time 
by dead rodent typingGood riddance to Jon Stewart. And congratulations. He's made it, and had a long career, and that deserves respect.

Politically, however, he has become completely worthless--a liability, even. Perhaps it's the inevitable result of age and wealth. You can have one or the other, but when you have both, you forget how most people live, your judgement is constantly battered to by the fact that at some level, you're basically hustling deodorant and tampons, you start to hob-knob with fascists, and you begin to realize that hey, Nazis are people too! They have emotions and feelings and they certainly are better-dressed and go to five-star restaurants.

Before long, you're talking about the need to appreciate the humanity and sincerity of our home-grown fascists even as they send Our Troops to become maimed and killed overseas, and then you're boiling over when the New York Times paints an unflattering picture of Marco Rubio's finances. Which is fucking asinine and I'm going to tell you why: Because the party that has been attacking 'welfare queens', students, the poor, the middle-class, and destroyed the economy in 2008 with 30 years of Reaganomics still wants to paint itself as so fucking fiscally responsible that if Obama's presidency should have bankrupted the country a billion times over and yet they can't balance their own fucking checkbooks even as they're paid huge sums for a book deal or getting houses with no down payment and you want to defend that?

THERE ARE PEOPLE ROTTING IN HELLISH PRISONS FOR CRIMES THEY NEVER COMMITTED, YOU FUCKING BORDERLINE SENILE ASSHOLE WITH YOUR FUCKING STUPID, IDIOTIC MYTH OF SOME BIPARTISAN PARADISE THAT NEVER EXISTED.  

So, to reiterate, Jon Stewart: Good riddance and go fuck yourself. Will be plenty of time for that in the barn on your so-called ranch. Please, no pictures of you clearing brush with a chainsaw.

dead rodent typing

department of white_woman_took_mah_job

This is what happens when there's no terrorist attack during the week--some poor schlep gets their entire life dragged through the coals of the 24/7 media circus. No doubt there's a mob of "journalists" surrounding her house, photographing her every move and shouting inane questions, with death threats coming from every angle. Her real mistake was not being satisfied with being a secretary but instead trying. The lesson is clear: NEVER TRY TO HELP ANYONE.

skeptical john stossel: a fish can't have feelings, i'm john stossel and i don't have any feelings

Fox News’ John Stossel claims documentary ‘Blackfish’ faked crying whale scene


Fox News resident skeptic and questioner-of-all-observable-phenomena-which-everyone-with-a-brainstem-can-see leapt into the capitve marine mammal pond. Said Mr. Stossel: "A fish can't have feelings, i'm john stossel and i don't have any feelings." He then caught a human infant between his teeth and ran off on all fours, presumably it being his dinner time. 

(Pictured above-left: John Stossel attempting to comprehend this thing whales call "love".) 


#FOX,#JOHNSTOSSEL,#KILLERWHALE,#CAPTIVITY,#FOX,#BLACKFISH

Black or White? Woman’s Story Stirs Up a Furor - NYTimes.com

Above: Artist's rendering of alleged white-and-or-black
woman.

Black or White? Woman’s Story Stirs Up a Furor - NYTimes.com

"You, sir, are worse than Hitler (the simpsons)." Is this what social media is for, freak of the week/scapegoat of the week? Of course it is. Well, okay then: She's the worst person in the world till we forget she ever existed. I'd give it till Monday. (Sorry, if you want the limelight to last, you have to drown your kid AND get Nancy Grace on the case. Or some equally sleazy reporter also clamoring for his spot on the stage.) We should probably burn her at the stake at the very least and see if we can extract some magic out of her.


But there's the proverbial silver lining: Every week we collectively demand a scapegoat to either love or hate (depending on the politics of aforesaid scapegoat). Hatred of someone we don't know, of someone's life we have not lived, is a great way to reaffirm one's identity and justify our innate ethnocentric tendencies--all without actually accomplishing anything or assisting anyone or doing any bit of good whatsoever. It's fantastic!

At any rate, it's good to know that for some people, no matter how successful they are in life or what virtues they possess, they will have parents who will try to royally fuck them in the ass via the press.



#freakoftheweek
#racheldolezal
#scapgoatoftheweek

lindsey graham and his "rotating first lady"

 I'm sure that "rotating first lady" is some kind of strange, massive sex toy that can only be delivered straight from Serbia by a strange, hooded figure who only arrives by night.

seinfeld: my daughter wants to date a negro and what is up with that?

#headlines