Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Baghdad Bob on the Potomac

As Republicans began discussing a Biden presidency more openly on Tuesday, Trump still pledged to press forward with almost nonexistent legal options.

“Tremendous evidence pouring in on voter fraud. There has never been anything like this in our Country!” Trump tweeted just as members of his party were publicly recognizing Biden’s victory.
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“The president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election,” said White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, calling the Electoral College vote “one step in the constitutional process.”

Poor Kayleigh. For a supposedly Harvard-educated lawyer[1], she's coming across as one of the dumber people working in the West Wing, and under Trump, that's a very low bar.

Meanwhile, even Moscow Mitch has had enough with seditious Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republican senators Tuesday during a private caucus call not to object to the election results on Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

McConnell told his caucus that challenging the results would force Republicans to take a “terrible vote” because they would need to vote it down and appear against President Donald Trump. Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) also echoed McConnell’s remarks.
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Several House Republicans, led by hard-line conservative Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), are still planning to challenge the election results on Jan. 6, the date Congress will officially certify them. If a Republican senator joins the long-shot effort, however, it will force both chambers to take a vote on the election. But they have yet to get official buy-in from any GOP senators, though Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) hasn't ruled it out.

Frankly, I'd like to see them try. There is zero chance of success. Any vote that could threaten to tear apart the husk of the Republican party would be a plus for the nation. The GOP has become a party that lives in an illogical reality, where ideology is all and facts simply don't matter. Furthermore, it had long become a revanchist party, which yearns for a time when white men had priority over everyone else, women stayed home cooking meals and plopping out babies and all of those people knew their place, which was to work hard jobs for low pay and never go within a mile of a voting booth. The cops said "sir" and "ma'am" to white people of status, administered hickory shampoos to white trash and gay men, and, as far as those people were concerned, they could be shot dead with impunity.[2]

One would think that there could be a role in this country for a conservative party that operates from a position of taking solid science and then applying conservative principles to things that need to be done. If the science is clear on something, conservtives could argue for an approach that incorporates market principles rather than government mandates. But the current conservative party starts out by burying their head in the sand and pretending that problems don't exist.[3] They could do much better and make a stab at competing in the marketplace of ideas, instead of relying on trying to rig the game.
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1. Has anyone seen her diploma?
2. Usually in the back.
3. If the current iteration of Republicans were in power back then, we'd still have leaded gas, leaded paint and no pollution controls or safety equipment in vehicles.

7 comments:

Ten Bears said...

I was struck this morning by how much she looks like Trump's other bimbo bottle blonde bobble-head: the old one, Kellyann I think her name is, married to a comedian, kid is a TikTok star. All skin and bones, neurotic looking no doubt se ... well, nevermind. Don't these bottle-blondes ever die their roots?

Years ago I spent a couple of years with a half-breed up in Northern Montana, quite possibly the most beautiful girlfriend I ever had. With a Blackfoot tan and Irish eyes, Irish freckles, and Irish hair: classic flaming Maureen O'Hara red orange hair, and the temper to boot. She died it black. Obsessively. If even one root showed red.

Funny thing is her sisters, FBI, had Blackfoot hair: beautiful jet-black ... that they died red. Turned out about the color of the 'publish your comment' button.

Stewart Dean said...

"They could do much better and make a stab at competing in the marketplace of ideas"
ROFL....STOP it Comrade Misfit, you're killing me! ...further hysterical laughter....

seafury said...

I was gonna ask if she had any sisters Ten bears, Sounds like a fun bunch. Where do you get hair dye in Northern Montana? In my case my better 2/3rds is a Wisconsin blonde. She is somewhat sane although the blonde shines through occasionally when it comes to common sense. My sisters in law on the other hand are bat shit crazy. One is working on husband #6 the other is getting divorced after 15 years so she can better serve Jesus. And a old fashioned prosperity gospel preacher for a father in law. Doesn't have a church but does on line speechifyin and prophesizing. We aren't able to see them much in these trying times.

Eck! said...

TB,

Never mix Blackfoot with irish. The temper is Irish and the looks are
perfect. Its a family trait I know well, including either black
or red hair!

Stewart, they do exist, stop laughing. Didn't say they were common
though. We call them normal people.

Main worry is the Zombies, aka cult of Drumpf rethugs. They shamble
around and talk about brains while exhibiting little if any.
Maybe they will line up again to "protect" the WH and the Nat-Guard
can look down on them and convince them they are on the wrong side
hunting for perforation.


Eck!

dinthebeast said...

What do you bet that Rand Paul objects anyway? Boy can't help himself.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Comrade Misfit said...

Yeah, Doug, that boy is... special.

Frank Wilhoit said...

The only conservative principle is the conservation of privilege; and the only way to conserve privilege is by violence.