Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Thumbscrew (def)


My contribution to the political science lexicon.

thumbscrew
noun  thumb·screw \-ˌskrü\
Simple Definition of thumbscrew

: An online posted response to a thoughtful political discussion by a troll constrained by a 140 character limit, the lack of a keyboard, a short attention span, and an inability to engage in complex, abstract,  and non-binary cognition. Often confined to photoshopped memes.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY


THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY - but this election is rigged. Rigged by the media which starved Trump's Republican rivals (any of whom, with the possible exception of Ted Cruz, would have at least been bare-bones competent for the job) as well as Bernie Sanders of the "earned media" that they ACTUALLY EARNED through their experience and their policies and their temperament.

And, by doing so, they enabled a minority of Republicans to form a clot which is currently giving the Republican Party a possibly fatal stroke AND TO MAKE HILLARY CLINTON THE NEXT PRESIDENT as well as quite possibly hand her a governing majority.

So, to the Mike Talottas of this world I say, YOU'VE BEEN HAD.

The only POSSIBLE conspiracy is that the Clinton's diabolically nudged Trump into the race knowing - as they know the man - that the rest was a foregone conclusion.

AND IF SHE'S THAT EFFING CLEVER THEN *SHE'S* THE ONE I WANT DEALING WITH PUTIN!

Saturday, October 01, 2016

Trump's Mortal Sin: Inconveniencing Me :-)


"War is hell."
-General William Tecumseh Sherman

"Political campaigns are an inconvenient pain in the ass."
-William Francis Bekkenhuis III 

I have again donated more money than I should and have cancelled the Saturday night dinner and movie event through the election to allow me to commit at least half a day on Saturday to the Clinton campaign through to Election Day (which I'm taking off to shuttle folks to the polls if needed).

But even as his campaign and his very personality come unglued, I'll be God damned if I withhold any of the feeble support of which I am capable to the Clinton campaign.

I never liked the Clintons. I never voted for the Clintons.

But eight years of George W. Bush followed by eight years of Republican obstructionism aimed at delegitimizing the nation's first black president and every indication that Republicans will once again double-down and do all in their power to delegitimize the first woman president changes one's perspective.

Or should.

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