7 thoughts on “Footloose”

  1. Haven’t heard anything about charges being filed. You can see these yahoos’ faces clear as day.

    Just gotta wonder if these folks realize that they’re fucking nuts. Too many folks running for office who only have a PowerPoint-deep understanding of the issues but think they have a clever spin on something that no one else ever thought of.

    (Like that Stapleton guy, running for treasurer, with his “my opponent grew up in government and I have zero experience” line, like that’s a good thing. He says it with this shit eating grin, like he thinks that line is going to be his “you are my sunshine” moment. But the thing is, when you combine his ignorance with his lying about his DUI, you’d think he’d be a non-starter, and yet he’s neck and neck in the polls.)

    I’m no smarter than I was when I cast my first vote some 30 years ago, so it can’t be that I have some new insight into the issues and the political process, and yet, I’ve never been more scared of the folks running. Extremists from the fringes have always been out there, but is this the first time a major party has so completely embraced them?

  2. Charges have been filed. The dumbass stomper is demanding an apology from the girl on the ground. WTF! I am scared shitless that these yahoo’s will get power and it’s “Springtime for Hitler” all over again. As the Dead Kenedy’s said “last call for freedom of Speech”

  4. This whole deal is a variant of the Julius Caesar idea of getting folks so angry and wound up against a perceived enemy, which in this case is the government in general (it helps that the prez is a black guy and Democrat) that their eyes are closed when they enter the voting booth and maybe they even stomp on the head of those they disagree with. The Nazis used the same tactics — sadly they usually do work pretty well…for awhile. Look at how many folks NOW think GW Bush’ two wars were big mistakes — but how were those of us who pointed this out BEFORE they got started treated? Called unpatriotic, treasonous, weak, etc. The sane folks out there need to show up at the polls on November 2 and prevent most (if not all) of these kooks from being elected…if we don’t it’s OUR fault!

  5. Yep. Time for an American version of Krystallnacht. We will start with the illegals. Eventually get to gays and liberals. Finally Democrats and Republicans, since we won’t have any use for political parties any more.

    The timing is just about right. I don’t see any way to restore what we recall as the American Prosperity (TM) of the post WW II era since this was built on an industrial economy, not to mention that our competitors had all been bombed flat. We spent the last thirty years living on credit cards rather than retooling, and are now unable to rebuild and are therefore scared shitless. We can cut government, but what we are doing is cutting services that we cannot afford since we no longer have a tax base or export economy. What the teabaggers fail to see is that their solution doesn’t rebuild wealth, but merely ensures we recognize our actual poverty rather than generate more IOUs.

    Of course, when the public realizes this, the shit will really hit the fan. Obviously, scapegoats have to be found and punished. But when that clearly fails, what then? More scapegoats, of course.

    Pretty scary, Larry. The other day I read a newspaper article claiming that gays were not going to show up since so much of the equality agenda is stalled. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Or in their case, potentially digging one’s own grave. The jackboots who will stomp heads don’t really care whose heads they stomp. The fun is in the stomping.

  6. I’ve heard and read all kinds of “I’m not going to vote because…” stupidity. Obama’s got both sides mad at him, which in conventional terms usually means a guy’s doing the job right. NOBODY could (or can) fix the mess left to us by 8 years of Bush/Cheney, combined with buying everything we fancied on credit, sure that the ever-rising value of our homes would bail our asses out if/when the bills actually came due. The corporate interests have quietly hijacked these Tea Party morons to do their work for them…making it even easier for the average Joe Sixpack like them to get conned, screwed and otherwise made poorer while the tiny minority of rich folks who run these amoral corporations get ever richer. I say to the “not voting” crybabies – “stay home, you’ll make sure you get the government you deserve that way!”

  7. I think I skipped one presidential election in my misspent youth due to communist orthodoxy and/or massive drug use. Otherwise, I vote. Wasn’t it Heinlein who said you should cast your ballot because while there may not be anyone you want to vote for, there is certain to be someone you want to vote against?

    I’m not delighted with everything Obama’s done either. On civil liberties, he’s basically a darker shade of Bush. And it’s pretty easy to argue that the Demublicans and the Republicrats are the political equivalent of two professional wrestlers squaring off. For example, I had no idea that Bibleburg’s own Doug Lamborn was a member of the Congressional Bike Caucus (he’s probably a spy).

    But nobody could clean up this mess in two years. It makes Hercules’ labors in the Augean Stables look like a quick swipe with the Mop-n-Glo in a single-wide’s kitchen. So I’ll cut the man a break for now.

    Meanwhile, unless we want to gear up and start shooting people as part of some Second American Revolution, the ballot box is our only weapon against the powdered and manicured right hand of the American body politic. Y’all lock and load, ’cause Tuesday is coming up.

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